It wasn’t easy for Alice Guy-Blaché to make movies. It was the last decade of the nineteenth century and film-making technology was primitive. Her boss, the inventor Léon Gaumont, dissuaded her from even trying. “My youth, my lack of experience, my sex all conspired against me,” she later recalled. Yet experts believe that Guy-Blaché would go on to make around 1,000 films. So why has her remarkable tale been largely forgotten?
