La Fée aux Choux (1896)
- Original title
- La fée aux choux
- Directed by
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Genre
- fantasy film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1 min
- Rating
- 5.2 of 10 from 98 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a very early silent short film from 1896 about a fairy who makes babies appear from cabbages. It was the first film ever directed by a woman, Alice Guy-Blaché, and the original version is now lost.
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What happens
The 1896 version of La Fée aux Choux (The Fairy of the Cabbages) is a lost short fantasy film directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (then known as Alice Guy) that, according to her, featured a honeymoon couple, a farmer, pictures of babies glued to cardboard, and one live baby. The 1900 La Fée aux Choux and the 1902 Sage-Femme de Première Classe (originally titled La Fée aux Choux) are frequently confused with the original lost film, which is the first film directed by a woman. Alice Guy-Blaché reported that she had to remake the film at least twice and this accounts for the two films dated 1900 and 1902 that are available to view online. Guy-Blaché's 1900 version employed one actress (the fairy), two live babies, and a number of dolls. Her 1902 version, later retitled Sage-femme de première classe (Midwife First Class), employed a honeymoon couple and a female baby merchant along with numerous babies and dolls. In a still photograph from the 1902 version, Guy-Blaché appears, wearing a "costume of Normandy". She does not play the husband in the film, but said that she "for fun" pulled on the peasant clothes for the photograph. In the evidence that has been coming in piecemeal for over a century, there are multiple points of confirmation that there were three La Fée aux Choux and that the first was filmed in the spring and early summer of 1896. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Danse serpentine par Mme. Bob Walter (1897)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.