Alice Guy-Blaché, Gaumont Secretary and the First Woman Fiction Film Director

"I am afraid you are too young, Mademoiselle." "Never mind, that will pass."

So Alice Guy-Blaché recalled her engagement as a secretary at the Gaumont company, a post that made her the first woman in history to direct a fiction film.

Between 1896 and 1920 the pioneer of world cinema produced and directed more than 1,000 films.

Alice lived a long life, very nearly a hundred years, from 1873 to 1968, founded her own film company and entered the history of cinema. Her first work is considered to be the film about the Cabbage Fairy

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