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DESCRIPTION:\n	Introduced by Richard Koszarski \n	\n	Live music by Donald S
 osin \n	\n	  \n	\n	The first woman to produce and direct her own films\, a
 nd the only one ever to own her own studio\, Alice Guy Blaché had been dir
 ecting films in Paris since before the turn of the century. Sent to Americ
 a with her husband\, Herbert\, to promote Gaumont’s talking film system in
  1907\, she saw the opportunity to launch her own production company and t
 hree years later opened the Solax studio in Flushing. As business took off
 \, she built an impressive new Solax on Lemoine Avenue in Fort Lee\, which
  the company moved into during the summer of 1912. But even when Solax was
  releasing two or three films every week\, this busy studio head still fou
 nd time to direct most of them herself. \n	\n	\n	Program runs approximatel
 y 85 minutes. \n	\n	All films from 1912. \n	\n	\n	A Fool and His Money \n	
 \n	  Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm\, Library of Congress. With James Russell
 . The earliest known film with an all-black cast\, this farcical romance s
 uggests one of the routines popular on segregated vaudeville circuits at t
 he time. But the focus on class over race reveals an essentially European 
 perspective quite different from later American “race movies.” \n	\n	\n	Fa
 lling Leaves \n	\n	Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm\, Library of Congress. With
  Marian Swayne\, Magda Foy. Two little girls try for a miracle\, with some
  help from a passing doctor and a nod to O. Henry’s tale “The Last Leaf.” 
 \n	\n	\n	\n	Algie\, the Miner \n	\n	Dirs. Edward Warren\, Harry Schenck. 3
 5mm\, Library of Congress. With Billy Quirk. A “sissy boy” (as the Solax a
 d put it) is sent out west to become a man. A regeneration drama that grad
 ually reveals itself as a curious and complicated love story. \n	\n	\n	\n	
 The Detective’s Dog \n	\n	Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm\, Library of Congres
 s. With Darwin Karr\, Magda Foy. Years before Rin-Tin-Tin\, Solax (and cut
 e little Magda Foy) send their trusty Saint Bernard to the rescue when our
  inquisitive hero finds himself tied to a log in a sawmill. \n	\n	\n	\n	Th
 e Girl in the Armchair \n	\n	Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm\, Library of Cong
 ress. With Blanche Cornwall\, Darwin Karr. It’s hard to say which is more 
 important here: the noble young heroine or the carefully arranged armchair
  that hides her from the other players (but not the audience). \n	\n	\n	\n
 	Canned Harmony \n	\n	Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm\, Library of Congress. W
 ith Billy Quirk\, Blanche Cornwall. Fooling Dad with the aid of the phonog
 raph. A decade earlier\, Alice Guy Blaché had been directing talking films
  for Gaumont\, shot to playback. Now much of this same technology was avai
 lable to mischievous middle-class consumers. \n	\n	\n	\n	Making of an Amer
 ican Citizen \n	\n	Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm\, Lobster Films. With Lee B
 eggs\, Blanche Cornwall. An “Americanization” film directed by a woman who
  had arrived in the States only five years earlier and was not herself a c
 itizen. Obsolete traditions brought over from the old country—notably wife
  beating—must be recast in the great American melting pot. \n	\n	\n\nFree 
 with Museum admission on a first-come\, first-served basis. Museum members
  may reserve tickets in advance by calling 718 777 6800. For more informat
 ion about becoming a Museum member and to join online\, please click here.
  \n
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LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image
SUMMARY:Alice Guy Blaché\, Queen of Solax
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