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Alice Guy Blaché
(1906-2019)

Contents: La Crinoline (1906), Cupid and the Comet (1911), Playing Trumps (1912), Canned Harmony (1912), The Hater of Women (1912), Burstup Homes’s Mystery Case (1913) [Burstup Homes’ Murder Case], and A House Divided (1913).

This collection of films directed by Katja Raganelli includes documentary-dramas on two women filmmakers: Alice Guy Blaché and Margery Wilson. The edition includes seven films by Guy Blaché produced from 1906 in France through 1913 in the USA.

Edition Filmmuseum
2021 DVD edition

Alice Guy Blaché Hommage an die erste Filmemacherin der Welt (1997), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated, with Margery Wilson Vom Stummfilmstar Hollywoods zur Filmregisseurin (1998), black & white, 44 minutes, not rated, and Die Restaurierung von Cupid and the Comet (2019), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, including La Crinoline (1906), black & white, 2 minutes, not rated, Cupid and the Comet (1911), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Playing Trumps (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, Canned Harmony (1912), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, The Hater of Women (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, Burstup Homes’s Mystery Case (1913) [Burstup Homes’ Murder Case], black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, and A House Divided (1913), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated.

Edition Filmmuseum, 119, UPC/EAN 9-783958-601192.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German and English language intertitles, optional German and English language subtitles; chapter stops; 20-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €29,95.
Release date: June 2021.
Country of origin: Germany

This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from archival print materials.

The silent films are accompanied by music scores compiled and performed by Richard Siedhoff and Günter A. Buchwald.

Supplemental material includes seven Alice Guy Blaché short films produced in France and the USA (1906-1913); and a 20-page insert booklet with writings by Katja Raganelli.

The collected silent films are recommended home video editions. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.