The Stepmother

Tarnished Reputations

While visiting a small village, popular young artist Robert Williams meets innocent country girl Helen Sanderson and, enchanted by her beauty, induces the girl to pose for him. An attraction develops between them, but just as the portrait is completed, Robert is called back to the city. Helen fails to hear from him again and Robert's neglect draws her to the city, where she is sent to a reformatory on a false charge. Once released, she begs Judge Princeton for help and, feeling sorry for the unfortunate girl, he introduces her to playwright George Wendbourg, who adopts Helen and makes her a great actress. Seeing Helen on stage reawakens Robert's love for her and he begs her for forgiveness. After initially snubbing him, Helen relents and the two finally are reunited.

His Double

A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.

The Consequences of Feminism

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other. The director of this film is not credited in any contemporary catalogues or trade publications, or attributed to anyone by scholars or primary sources, however Alice Guy-Blaché is the most probable candidate.

Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"

Polin performs a song.

Madame's Cravings

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

Spain

This is a compilation of some of the films that Alice Guy filmed in Spain from mid-October to the end of November, 1905 (catalogue numbers 1371 to 1384) that were individually released in early 1906.

The Cleaning Man

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

Starting Something

A suffragette gets her husband drunk, leading to an escalating parade of mishaps as more people get drunk on their "lime juice."

Pierrette's Escapades

"Les Fredaines de Pierrette" is the collective name of four short films of 20 meters each ("Arrivée de Pierrette et de Pierrot", "Arrivée d'Arlequin", "Suite de la danse", and "Départ d'Arlequin et de Pierrette"), attributed to Alice Guy (although not confirmed in any primary source), in which Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favor of Harlequin. From July 1901, the series were made available hand-colored.

Ballet Libella

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

Algie, the Miner

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

Ocean Studies

Alice Guy films the sea.

The Bricklayers

Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops.

Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

My Life Without Me

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

Dogfight

In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship out with three of his buddies for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Planning a massive blowout for their last night in San Francisco, Eddie, his buddies, and a number of other Marines set up a contest they call a "dogfight”.

Love & Basketball

Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.

Good Dick

A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her during their brief daily transactions, he finds her street address in the store's database, drives to her apartment building and initiates an unconventional campaign to win her affections.