Le13 Heures de France 2 draws portraits of women who have marked history, but who have often been forgotten. Sunday September 19, it is the story of Alice Guy that is highlighted.
The film The cabbage fairy that Alice Guy made in 1896 made her the first director in the history of cinema at only 23 years old. His love story for the seventh art began in March 1895 in a building in the Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés. When she sees the very first screening of a Frères Lumières film, Alice Guy decides that she wants to make films. However, during this revelation, she was only a secretary in the Opera district at Léon Gaumont, a trader in cameras and soon in cinema projectors.
She offers her boss to make short films that he will provide to buyers of his projectors. “You can always try, but the condition is that your mail does not suffer from it”, would have answered Léon Gaumont, according to a former testimony of Alice Guy. Each evening, Alice Guy turns the cranks and invents the fundamentals of moving images including video clips and reverse images. She will be the first to make the making-offs of her shoots, but also peplums, a constantly renewed daring.