An unprecedented large-scale retrospective of the films of Alice Guy Blaché (1873–1968)—the first woman director in the history of cinema will be presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art, from Nov 6 to Jan 24, 2010. Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer features more than eighty rare films by this key but unsung figure of early cinema. Between 1896 and 1920, first in France and then in the US, she wrote, directed, supervised and/or produced more than 1,000 films. These ranged from short films of less than a minute’s duration to full-length multi-reel features and include some hand-tinted in color, and more than 100 films with synchronized sound made between 1902 and 1906, some 20 years before sound revolutionized motion pictures as we now know them.
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