"Pioneering Franco-American filmmaker Alice Guy was never completely forgotten. Her movies would be mentioned by legendary directors like Hitchcock and Eisenstein in their memoirs. Every so often, over the decades of her life and in the 50 years since her death, some archivist or historian would seek to give her the due she was owed — first female writer-director-producer-editor, first female head of production, etc. But the slights, omissions and outright sexist erasures of her name from the historical record ruled the day — a century of days. ... Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, the First Female Filmmaker, begins with Alison McMahan’s 2002 book, Alice Guy-Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema and dives into globe-trotting original scholarship, filling the screen with some 138 interview subjects and mountains of primary source (written and film) material. ..."
Movie Nation (Video)
NY Times - ‘Be Natural’ Review: Rescuing Alice Guy Blaché, a Film Pioneer, From Oblivion - A.O. Scott (Video)
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YouTube: BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ - official US trailer
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