Alice Guy Blache had been an executive with the Gaumont Company in France, when she came to the US in 1911 to help set up the American branch of that esteemed company. But she soon adapted, and began to continue her cinematic career as a producer-writer-director, again showing the broad range of interests which had led her to be one of the true pioneers of the film medium in her native country. It's amazing to look at her films and remember that she was hardly alone in terms of being both a high-powered executive and a pioneering innovator as a filmmaker. There are many treasures to be found in her work; it's sad that, starting in 1896, by the early 1920s, this remarkable woman would find that the dominant business model of the film industry (which she had helped to establish) would prove inhospitable to her. But her work here, for the Solax Company (which she cofounded), shows the extent of her great talent.
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