Alice Guy french pioneer who invented the director's job
Barbra Streisand
Alice Guy not only directed the first
narrative motion picture, but was the first to use close ups, (something
usually attributed to D.W. Griffin), she was the first to film a motion
picture in color. First is a word that remains synonymous with Alice
Guy. She did the first film noir, the first gay themed film, she was the
first to step out from behind the camera to direct actors, at the time
all directors handled the camera themselves, and she made extensive use
of wax cylinders to give many of her short films a sound track, in other
words they were talkies before anyone had coined that term.
Moving to America,Alice Guy ran the largest pre-Hollywood studio in the country. Over her lifetime Guy wrote and directed over three hundred films and yet this Grand Lady of cinema has been all but ignored. It is time that this wrong is righted and Alice Guy given her due as the pioneer among pioneers in film.
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Alice Guy directed the first narrative motion picture
Moving to America,Alice Guy ran the largest pre-Hollywood studio in the country. Over her lifetime Guy wrote and directed over three hundred films and yet this Grand Lady of cinema has been all but ignored. It is time that this wrong is righted and Alice Guy given her due as the pioneer among pioneers in film.
