Burstup Homes' Murder Case

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.

Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris

Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.

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.

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.

The Stepmother

A poor boy is mistreated by his stepmother when his father isn't present.

Starting Something

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

Ballet Libella

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

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'.

Disappearing Act

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed, Gaston Breteau, Alice Guy or Georges Hatot.

The Women

The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.

Catch and Release

For a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best friends.

The Vagabond

A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.

The Merry Widow

Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so easy in fact when she thinks twice. She does not get on with her husband any longer. She gets on his nerves and he does not attract her any longer. She feels good only when she jogs on the beach and ... when she is the arms of her lover, Leo. One day, Gilbert gets killed in a car accident. Good news, since she will be able to live with Leo. The trouble is her well-meaning family settle at her villa with a view to supporting the "poor widow" morally. Anne-Marie just cannot admit she is not distressed at all, especially to her son Christophe. She is now even more of a prisoner than when Gilbert was alive...

The Dead Girl

The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.

Permanent

This comedy, set in 1983 in small town Virginia, centers around a 13 year old and her family. The story of a hairstyle gone incredibly wrong and a young girl's plight to fit in while encountering bullies at a new school.

Black Sheep

When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media. To baby-sit Mike, the campaign assigns sarcastic Steve, who gets the experience of a lifetime when he tries to take Mike out of town during the election.

Holy Smoke

While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.