Alice & Eiffel: A New History of Early Cinema and the Love Story Kept Secret fo
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Alice & Eiffel: A New History of Early Cinema and the Love Story
- ISBN
- 9781682227664
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Book Series
- The Life and Work of Alice Guy Blaché
- Publisher
- Bookbaby Print
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Item Weight
- 22 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Product Information
When the cinema started in Paris in 1895, fifteen years before the first studio was built in Hollywood, the first film director was a young woman named Alice Guy who worked for Gaumont, one of the earliest manufacturers of motion picture cameras. The first films were only a minute long, but Alice at age twenty-two used the motion picture camera to stage a scene, a story showing babies being born in a cabbage patch. It was the first of hundreds of short films Alice wrote and directed. For eleven years, Alice made films in Paris and then in 1907 she came to the United States, where she wrote and directed hundreds of longer films in New York and Fort Lee, New Jersey, before Hollywood became the center of the film industry. Gustave Eiffel was president of the Gaumont company from its inception in 1895, but Alice did not meet him there. Eiffel for a century has been thought to be merely a silent partner in the Gaumont company. This book shows that he guided the company from the year before it was founded until the year Alice left the company. Alice wrote a memoir that was published in 1976. Her relationship to Eiffel and the role he played in her life is alluded to but well camouflaged. The brevity of Alice s memoir, little more than a hundred pages, has flummoxed researchers for decades. It has been called tangential and incomplete, tantalizing in what it leaves out. This book is about what Alice s memoirs leave out'the people introduced but not described, the difficulties alluded to but minimized, the losses and triumphs barely mentioned, and the love story she felt compelled to keep secret."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bookbaby Print
ISBN-10
1682227669
ISBN-13
9781682227664
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220625377
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Book Series
The Life and Work of Alice Guy Blaché
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Group
Trade
Publication Date
2016-03-17
Series Volume Number
1
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