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On July 3, 2023, La Poste issues a stamp bearing the image of Alice GUY, the world's first female director and producer, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of her birth.

If Alice Guy (1873-1968) had not attended a private screening of a film by the Lumière brothers in 1895, would she have become the first female filmmaker in history? His encounter with cinema was love at first sight. After her parents' setbacks and then the death of her father, having to earn a living, Alice joined the Comptoir Général de la Photographie – the future Gaumont company – as a shorthand typist at the age of 21. Focused on everyday scenes, films at the time only lasted a few minutes. Alice Guy intuited the unexplored potential of this invention and offered to write sketches of her own.

With the means at hand, cardboard sets and babies from local families, Alice created The Cabbage Fairy in 1896, the very first fiction of the seventh art. Between 1897 and 1907, she shot more than 200 films for which she wrote the scripts, supervised the productions and directed them. She experiments with new techniques and invents special effects. The chronophone, which allows voices and images to be synchronized, opens up new horizons for him. She launched into musical films and shot increasingly ambitious works, including a version of the Passion of Christ, one of her masterpieces.

In 1907, she followed her husband, Herbert Blaché, to the United States. Alice Guy-Blaché, for the Americans, will therefore dominate world cinema, piloting a huge production program in complete independence in her own studios and trying her hand at all genres: western, detective, melodrama... The restructuring of the sector affects its career. Forced to liquidate her production company to pay off her husband's debts, divorced and ruined, Alice returned to France in 1922. She would unjustly fall into oblivion, until the work of this pioneer of the seventh art was finally brought back to light.

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