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Had you ever heard of Alice Gilles Blasier?

I'm a filmmaker. I've never even heard of Alice.

I've never heard of her with one...

No, I've never heard of it.

I think people will think you're making it up.

1895, the Lumiers present the first public demonstration of their new invention,

a cinematograph, the first reliable method to project motion pictures.

Among those invited, a young secretary, she thought, why not use film to tell stories?

Alice Guy writes, directs, and produces one of the first narrative films ever made.

Alice is one of the first to utilize many film techniques, including close-ups, hand-tinted color, and synchronized sound.

Alice founds her own company, where she directs and manages all aspects of production.

Following a two-decade career comprised of a thousand films that she wrote, directed, or produced,

Alice disappears from filmmaking.

How could such an important figure in the birth of cinema not be known? I was determined to do

something about it. My name is Pamela Green and I'm working on a documentary.

Alice Gilles. Look at the films. My name is Pamela Green and I'm working on a documentary. De Laudeau Aliskey Blasier.

Look at the films being made, train coming into a station, ways breaking on a beach.

Who cares? They're just boring subjects.

You really needed people like Alice Ghee to come in and show you.

There was more to the cinema than just a stock shot she might be really one of the

very first directors in the history of film these are things that connect directly to her

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