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Alice Guy: First Lady Of Film
By Catel Muller and writer Jose-Louis Bocquet
SelfMadeHero, £17.99
ILLUSTRATOR Catel Muller and writer Jose-Louis Bocquet bring to life the largely ignored story — and many, many works — of film pioneer Alice Guy, credited as the first female film-maker, in their engaging graphic biography.
Director Guy, still largely ignored today, was the director behind such shorts as La Fee aux Choux (The Fairy of the Cabbages) and The Rag-Picker, as well as dozens of others between 1897 and 1922.
In 1906 she made one of the first biblical epics La vie du Christ (The Life of Christ), employing no less than 300 actors.
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