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Inventing The Movies

This novelized biography brings Alice Guy back to us, all of her determination, her creativity, her passion, her flaws, and her glory.

Lost Visionary of The Cinema

This book provides a close analysis of the one hundred Guy Blaché films that survive, and in the process rewrites early cinema history.

Alison McMahan is the author of the award-winning Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2002) and The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood (Bloomsbury, 2005). She produces documentaries for Homunculus Productions, and writes screenplays and fiction.

Contact: Alison@HomunculusProds.com

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New York 1900 to 1919 in FULL COLOR

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August 5, 2017

New York as it looked to Alice Guy.

Film Found! Secrets of the Night directed by Herbert Blaché

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May 8, 2017

Secrets of the Night directed by Herbert Blaché

Mystery. Comedy. A murder in an old house where everyone is a suspect.

These are the building blocks of Secrets of the Night, a silent movie from 1924. For years, silent film enthusiasts thought the flick was lost, like more than 7,000 other films from the era. In fact, it was listed on the U.S. Library of Congress's list of lost films.

Review of Spanish Edition of my book on Alice Guy

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March 18, 2017

I just stumbled on this website in Spanish devoted to Alice Guy, which starts with a blurb from the Spanish edition of my book:

Alice Guy, pionera del cine narrativo

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