Talk:Alice Guy-Blaché

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Name ONE director before Alice Guy-Blaché
"first female director in the motion picture industry and is considered to be one of the first directors of a fiction film."
 * As I understand it, Alice Guy-Blaché is THE First Film Director.


 * "Classic Program:

This program salutes the many women who have directed, scripted, and edited films throughout motion picture history. Highlighted are Alice Guy Blache, who was the world's first director; Anita Loos, screenwriter; and Mae West, who wrote and starred in her own films, changing the image of the passive woman previously portrayed in movies. Leni Riefenstahl, the controversial film-maker who directed 'Triumph of the Will' and 'Olympia' for the Nazis, is discussed, along with modern day women who combine their talents as actresses, directors, writers, and editors. '''Produced by Terry Hodel in 1974. From Pacifica Radio Archives', 1 (800) 735-0230'', www.pacificaradioarchives.org Program #BC1880 "


 * The Lumieres were making films before Guy. While it is arguable whether their actualities counted as narratives or not (especially the one with the water hose), what is clear is that Guy and Melies both attended the March 1895 exhibition(and/or the December 1895 exhibition as accounts vary) showing of the Lumiere brothers films, both were inspried, and both at the same time began directing films. At look at Guy's and Melies's early films both show narratives, so it would be difficult to argue that one or the other of them were the "first." So the proper wording makes sense to be "one of the first directors of a fiction film." Cygnature (talk) 19:55, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The current wording is "the second person and the first woman to be a film director and writer of narrative fiction films." Maybe a better wording might be "among the first, and certainly the first woman, to be a director and writer of narrative fiction films." Peaceray (talk) 20:48, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Place of death disputed
About the place of her death, Please see view 91 here : http://archives.cg94.fr/consultation/eta/img-viewer/etat-civil/94067/1MI_002595_01/viewer.html. It is a marginal mention in her birth certificate from the city of Saint-Mandé, where she was born — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pierregil83 (talk • contribs) 10:15, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry but page 91 of that? I can't make it out. Are you saying some registrar or clerk made a hand-written notation in her French birth record of her place of death, is that it? If so, I'm not swayed. Mahwah and Wayne are in two different counties. A French clerk with no knowledge of US geography does not seem to me to be a reliable source, when contrasted with numerous U.S. based records that she died elsewhere...Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:52, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, I try to explain in english, I hope you 'll understand. If you go on this link, at the bottom of the page, enter number 91 and ok, and you're on the right page where you can read her certificate of birth, which was scanned, as the whole register 1973 in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne). You can enlarge the page to see better. Here you will find all her first names in the registry (see the french page Alice Guy Blaché) the original phrase in french is the following: "Décédée à Wayne (Comté de Passaic), Etat de New Jersey (Etats Unis d'Amérique) le vingt-quatre mai mil neuf cent soixante-huit, selon acte transcrit au consulat Général de France à New York le 27 mai 1968. Signé (par le Maire de St Mandé) le 14 juin 1968". which means : Died in Wayne (Passaic County), New Jersey (United States of America) on May 24, 1968, as transcribed act at Consulate General of France in New York, on May 27, 1968. Signed (by the Mayor of St Mandé) June 14, 1968. He is not a clerk with no knowledge of us geography...! In France, we have strict rules on civil status, don't you ? unless the Consulat was wrong, but I cant't say more...sorry if my translation is not perfect.Pierregil83  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pierregil83 (talk • contribs) 18:29, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking the trouble to explain that. As I understand, Blache lived and is buried in Mahwah. But she died in a nursing home that could well have been in Wayne, for all I know. I can't find anything definitive verifies that Wayne is not correct. Encyclopedia Britannica does say Mahwah but that doesn't refute your source as an encyclopedia is but a WP:TERTIARY source. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:42, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I changed it back to Wayne. I left the disputed tag to alert people to this discussion. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:02, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Desilu
It is written at Mrs. Guy-Blaché is the only women to own and lead her own film company. But didn't Lucille Ball own and manage Desilu after her divorce? (talk 10:10, 23 August 2013 (CEST)

Source/style query
The word 'probably' jumped out at me; not a very Wiki word, it seemed to me.

The edit's also a virtual quote.

And the source is (Google blurb): "About – Women Film Pioneers Project Columbia University › cdrs › wfpp › about The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) is a freely accessible, collaborative online database that showcases the ...".

Which to me sounds like maybe a Wiki-like operation. I know I learned to stay away from Wiki-like sources in earlier days. There is the Columbia U. role, maybe offsetting the Wiki-likeness.

The edit was just made. I'm leaving it in. I'll discuss this all more if anyone's interested. Or maybe I'll come back and edit. Cheers. Swliv (talk) 19:23, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

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Using the chapter parameter
Hi, rather than comment Contains one chapter about Alice Guy Blaché, if you have access to the books, I think that it would be far better to use the  parameter & put in the title of the chapter that pertains to Guy-Blaché. Peaceray (talk) 05:43, 17 April 2021 (UTC)