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In which decade was the world’s first ever female film director? Was it perhaps the ’60s? Or possibly the ’20s? No. Try the ’90s — the 1890s. Try 1896, to be exact.
At age 23, Alice Guy was a pioneering director at France’s Gaumont Film Company. She was also the first woman to run her own studio. Throughout her career she directed over 400 films and was involved in the making of over 700 in Europe and America. Alice Guy had been largely ignored by film historians until after her death in 1968. The release of her autobiography and memoirs in the 1970s set the record straight on a few things that history had forgotten. Credit for her films was either missing or given to others.
