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Jan 05, 2022
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Film stills of Alice Guy with a camera

Today I learned that the world’s first female filmmaker was a Frenchwoman named Alice Guy. If you’re a cinephile, then you may already know all of this, but it was new and interesting to me. Between 1896 and 1920 she wrote, directed, and produced over a thousand films. She was among the first filmmakers in the world…

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