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- [Mike] The most talented, the most important,
the greatest of all time.
Who is The GOAT movie director?
Spielberg, Hitchcock, Orson Welles,
Alice Guy, Christopher Nolan?
Or, wait, wait, wait, Alice who?
That's right.
For your consideration Alice Guy-Blache,
the greatest film director of all time.
We love Steven, Al, and both Daves,
and so many others that could be in the GOAT debate.
(reel clicking)
But, we propose someone who nearly disappeared
from the annals of cinema history
despite being arguably the first cinematic storyteller.
Repeat, the first cinematic storyteller.
She wrote and directed what many consider
to be the first fictional narrative film,
and she did it in the 1800s, over 120 years ago.
This person is the George Washington
to your Abraham Lincoln.
The Alan Turing to your Steve Jobs.
The Godfather of your Godfather Part II.
She is Alice Guy, aka Alice Guy-Blache.
She directed about 1000, that is not a typo,
1000 movies in her short 26-year directing career,
including 22 feature films.
As of the writing of this video,
Spielberg has completed 34 feature films,
but in a period nearly twice as long as Guy's.
Spielberg also produces and founded Amblin Entertainment,
turning his directing skills into a media brand owned
and operated by him, so did Guy.
She founded the successful Solax Studio in 1910.
That's 1910 in America,
seven years before women were even allowed to vote.
But can you compare achievements
of a modern director like Spielberg
to Guy's achievements from over 100 somewhat years ago?
Look, you're right.
We'll never see a prime Jack Nicklaus
versus a prime Tiger Woods nor a Michael versus Lebron.
But you can view Alice Guy's Falling Leaves
next to Jurassic Park
Eh, doesn't seem like a fair fight, does it?
So are newer movies better?
Well, yeah, in many ways they are.
They should be, shouldn't they?
Look at AFI's number one movie of all time,
Citizen Kane versus the most recent Marvel's Infinity War
which has more ratings on IMDB
and a higher overall rating already.
So as much as we'd like to see Sam Langford
duke it out with Sugar Ray Robinson,
any good GOAT debate must compare achievements
to their contemporaries.
We must compare the power of stories
and technical innovations to their own times.
With Alice Guy Blache,
you get both innovation of story and technology.
She's basically the James Cameron of her time.
She made movies with color, Pierrette's Escapades in 1900.
She made short musicals with sound, called phonoscenes,
like this one from 1906!
(singing in foreign language)
These phonoscenes work like modern day looping,
also known as ADR, where actors recorded their dialogue
and songs by lip-sync-matching in post-production.
The patent belonged to Leon Gaumont,
as in Gaumont Studios, where Alice Guy worked
and wanted the phonoscenes for her pioneer films.
She was making the very first of these
with the guy who owned the innovation.
There's her work like The Burglars from 1897
that predates the madcap comedies
of the Marx Brothers, Three Stooges, Benny Hill,
or every hallway scene from Scooby-Doo.
We only have an incomplete version of it,
but it's a complex theatrical set,
blocked and staged so that the police and burglars pop in
and out all over the set as the heist goes awry.
Then there's her movies with special effects,
advanced lighting, locations shoots, hundreds of extras,
and over two dozen sets like in her early masterpiece,
Vie du Christ, where her use of depth
and staging were groundbreaking.
And keep in mind, what you're seeing are films
that have been degraded for a century.
They didn't look like this to their first audiences.
Nor in HD, right, it's film.
Yet we can still see how innovative they were.
She saw into the future when it came
to working with actors too.
Her slogan in the studio was,
be natural regarding actors' performances.
All this is happened decades
before method acting became popular,
decades before Dorothy stepped into a colorful Oz,
or even decades before The Jazz Singer sang.
But let's put all this aside and remember
that she filmed her first fiction film in 1896.
Only the Lumiere brothers could argue they'd done it first,
but that was called The Waterer Watered,
starring the Lumiere brothers' actual gardener,
and in the movie he is, well, a gardener.
It's a great, funny scene, and we're not discounting it,
but Guy's movie was pure fiction,
staged with a set and actors, and done in 1896.
It's called The Cabbage Fairy.
It may not seem like much, only 50 seconds
in a single shot and it's a little weird.
It's hard to imagine the pitch between Guy and Gaumont.
What does she do with the babies
after she plucks them from the garden?
Oh, she plops them on the ground like any other vegetable.
Right, right, and we'll use real babies?
Of course.
Her later films are more advanced, of course,
but this YouTube style film lit the fuse
that put cinematic storytelling on a rocket's trajectory.
This trajectory, this steep curve, led to DW Griffith,
and Fritz Lang, and Coppola, and Tarkovsky,
and both Andersons, and everyone.
On top of all of this, while her famous contemporaries,
like Melies's, were making movies like Trip To The Moon,
where a bunch of white guys travel to a distant land,
beat up the natives, capture a couple,
bring them back home in chains
to parade them around as entertainment
while they throw a big party for themselves, sound familiar?
Guy was working for women's suffrage,
and made the first film with an all-black cast,
called A Fool and His Money.
In the movie, a poor black man falls in love
with a sophisticated, wealthy black woman.
Not exactly Griffith's portrayal
of African Americans in Birth of a Nation.
It's a comedy, and the poor lad ends up losing out,
but the performances are both as hammy
and serious as white-cast contemporary films.
While we see black cast-members
in other movies around this time and later,
they're typically stereotyped and put into servile roles.
Outside of Guy's work, it's not until 1919
that Oscar Micheaux's film Homesteader,
paves the way forward and his story
in cinema history is unfortunately similar to Guy's.
There's also Algie the Miner,
where queer cinema makes an early cameo,
and The Little Rangers, which is a pro-feminist movie,
as the Brooklyn Academy of Music describes it.
A quick IMDB scan of her feature-length films
is like shuffling through great log-line pitches.
The Great Adventure, for example, was a commercial success.
While it was not critically well received,
that's not much of a surprise,
'cause the main character is a woman
seeking success on Broadway.
And this is the battle both she
and her films are constantly waging.
Why should a bunch of male critics
and male-dominated society make any difference
on how the quality of her films are perceived?
One of our modern female filmmaker heroes
explains it well here.
- If there's not a person in the room who gets it,
then there'll be like, oh, she doesn't get anything on,
and it just perpetuates itself
and that why I feel the more diverse the room
in every way, the smoother sailing,
people behave themselves better,
different things, the cream will rise differently.
- [Mike] Essentially, without diverse voices
in every aspect of the filmmaking industry,
we all lose out on great content.
Like Guy's female protagonist films Barbara Frietchie,
House of Cards, Stronger Than Death, and others,
or what almost happened to Tina Fey's Kotex Classic.
Innovative technology, check.
Innovative technique, check.
Innovative storytelling, check.
Drama, comedy, frontline artistic social activism,
check, check check.
Unfortunately, as companies merged and grew
into the likes of MGM, Paramount, RKO, and others,
numerous women filmmakers were displaced
from their pioneering days.
Even Gaumont, the oldest film company still
in existence in the world originally left Guy out
of their 1930 publication of the company's history,
despite her having worked there
for over a decade and conceiving of
and founding their theatrical film department.
Even the Lumiere Brothers, the founders of cinema,
did not see the medium's future.
Guy was there, in 1895,
when the brothers exhibited their first films.
She saw their films, she saw their potential,
and acted on it earlier than any other filmmaker.
And when the brothers abandoned
what they thought was a novelty,
Alice Guy pioneered the future of film,
a future she was largely and unjustly cut out of.
After World War I and her divorce helped
force her out of the industry,
she returned to France where a similarly changed industry
would not let her back in.
Largely with the help of her daughter Simone,
her rightful place in history began to be restored.
At least in France, she received some recognition
before her death, The Legion of Honor,
France's highest civilian honor.
In America, there's a growing number of documentaries
and she's now in the New Jersey Hall of Fame,
but there's work left to be done.
We hope her rightful place will continue its deserved rise.
And if you have a box of very old films in your attic,
or know someone who has, or work in your film archives,
double-check your stock.
You might be able to reintroduce the world
to a lost work made by one of the most forward-thinking,
greatest of all time directors.
What do you think of Alice Guy-Blache's work?
Who's your favorite director of all time?
Let us know in the comments.
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