French filmmaker, the first woman to direct films and among the first directors of any kind to build narrative fiction on screen, beginning at Gaumont in 1896. She ran production at Gaumont, then founded and ran the Solax studio in the United States, directing or producing hundreds of films that were largely written out of film history until scholarship recovered her in recent decades.
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Defining ContributionFirst woman film director; head of production at Gaumont; founder of the Solax studio 1 Connections
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.- Birth Year: 1873
- Death Year: 1968
- Nationality: French
- Defining Contribution: First woman film director; head of production at Gaumont; founder of the Solax studio
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Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (French: [alis gi blɑʃe]; née Guy; 1 July 1873-24 March 1968) was a French pioneer film director.
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