Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) is generally considered to be the world's first female director. French-born Alice Guy entered the film business as a secretary at Gaumont-Paris in 1896. The next year Gaumont changed from manufacturing cameras to producing... Read full bio →
House of Cards
The Mannings are a professional couple--she is a doctor, he is a lawyer--who are so absorbed in their careers that they have little time for their young daughter Louise, who is left to be raised by their servants.
Matrimony's Speed Limit
A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.
Dick Whittington and his Cat
A young boy hears wondrous tales of London, where the streets are paced with gold. He leaves his country home to see his fortune in London.
A House Divided
A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together."
Falling Leaves
It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated.
La fée aux choux
A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Note: This is a LOST film; the existing film of the same name is the remake from 1900.