Lights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker

This biography introduces Alice Guy-Blaché, an early filmmaker drawn to storytelling and to film’s unexplored possibilities. Her work developed narratives, camera angles, and techniques that surprised audiences. In the late nineteenth century, she became the first director of a sound movie and of a narrative fiction film. The account also describes daring scenes from her filmmaking, including a pirate ship explosion and entering a tiger’s cage.