{"product_id":"alice-guy-blache-volume-1-the-gaumont-years","title":"ALICE GUY BLACHE Volume 1: The Gaumont Years","description":"After years of relative obscurity, Alice Guy Blaché is now being recognized for her role in the development of the cinematic arts. Beginning as a typist for the Gaumont Company, she volunteered to produce a series of novelty films. So successful were her films—and so efficient her methods—she eventually became the studio’s head of production. During cinema’s first decade, the multi-talented Guy Blaché experimented with color and synchronized sound (decades before these technologies would be perfected) and cultivated such diverse genres as slapstick comedy, social realism, historical epic, and fantasy. Though rooted in the theatrical style of the Belle Époque, there is a decidedly modern sensibility to her films, as she playfully discovers comic and dramatic potential in the social mores of gender and class. This collection includes films made directly by Guy Blaché at Gaumont, as well a sampling of films produced by others, under her executive supervision (for example, The Birth, the Life, and Death of Christ, 1906).\n\nCONTENTS INCLUDE:\nAt the Hypnotist’s (1898)\nWonderful Absinthe (1899)\nAt the Photographer’s (1900)\nThe Cabbage-Patch Fairy (1900)\nTurn-of-the-Century Surgery (1900)\nMidwife to the Upper Class (1902)\nAlice Guy Films a “Phonoscène” (1905)\nThe Results of Feminism (1906)\nThe Drunken Mattress (1906)\nThe Hierarchy of Love (1906)\nMadame Has Her Cravings (1906)\nA Sticky Woman (1906)\nThe Rolling Bed (1907)\nThe Glue (1907) and more!\n\nSpecial Features:\n- Booklet essay by film historian Kim Tomadjoglou\n-Restoration samples\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B083XTH7QW\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B083XTH7QW.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:-|Alice Guy Blaché\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Dvd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41564331671610,"sku":"DBV.B083XTH7QW.G","price":14.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/alice-guy-blache-volume-1-the-gaumont-years","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}