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18th(2016)



A Four-year-old Heroine

Alice GUY-BLACHÉ

  • France
  • 1907
  • 6min
  • HD
  • black and white
  • Fiction

Classic

SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS

A nursemaid takes her four-year-old charge to the park, and loses her. However, far from being frightened or menaced, this child sets out to explore, and to act.


Program Note

Alice GUY-BLACHÉ often made films starring women or children
 as its major characters unlike contemporary male filmmakers. Especially smart
 and active young girls made frequent appearances in her films, such as a baby
 sister who saved her sister¡¯s life in ///Falling Leaves// and an adventurous
 little girl in ///A Four-Year-Old Heroine.// This four-year-old little girl is
 a hidden heroine in the neighborhood; she takes care of her nanny while taking
 a nap on a bench, makes a big contribution in the police catching a criminal,
 keeps people safe from a runaway train, and even saves herself from getting
 lost. Characters like the little girl in this film are hard to find in today¡¯s
 films. [CHO HeyYoung]

PROGRAM NOTE

SYNOPSIS

A nursemaid takes her four-year-old charge to the park, and loses her. However, far from being frightened or menaced, this child sets out to explore, and to act.


Program Note

Alice GUY-BLACHÉ often made films starring women or children
 as its major characters unlike contemporary male filmmakers. Especially smart
 and active young girls made frequent appearances in her films, such as a baby
 sister who saved her sister¡¯s life in ///Falling Leaves// and an adventurous
 little girl in ///A Four-Year-Old Heroine.// This four-year-old little girl is
 a hidden heroine in the neighborhood; she takes care of her nanny while taking
 a nap on a bench, makes a big contribution in the police catching a criminal,
 keeps people safe from a runaway train, and even saves herself from getting
 lost. Characters like the little girl in this film are hard to find in today¡¯s
 films. [CHO HeyYoung]

Director

  • Alice GUY-BLACHÉAlice GUY-BLACHÉ

    "Born in 1873 in Paris, France, Alice GUY-BLACHÉ was a pioneer of both French and American film. She first started out as the secretary to Léon GAUMONT, unknowingly stepping into the vortex from which cinema would be born. She, who was at the Lumière Brothers' first screening in 1895, realized that movies could do more than document workers leaving a factory. She asked her boss, GAUMONT, for permission to do something better: to tell a story. Despite her youth and inexperience, she wrote her own script and succeeded in making one of the first narrative films, The Cabbage Fairy, in 1896, which preceded the story films of Georges MÉLIÈS. She worked as head of film production for the Gaumont Film Company in Paris until 1907 when she moved to the United States. Three years later, she created her own company, Solax, and set up a studio in 1912, becoming the first woman to own and run a studio plant. Her innovative filmmaking career in France (1896-1907) and the United States (1910-1920), in which she employed color tinting, 'trick' photography, interracial casting, and synchronized sound, is comprised of more than a thousand films which she wrote, produced, or directed. Despite the depth of her work, her contribution in shaping early cinematic history has been overlooked, and she is often revered as a lost great visionary of cinema.

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