The first woman director, Alice Guy (1873 - 1968), center, on the set of her first film La Fee aux choux (1896 or 1900) for Gaumont Talking Pictures. The film is listed on IMDB as released in 1896 but the Gaumont catalogue lists it as number 370 which would place it more accurately in the year 1900 as well as her other 49 films which are listed between 1896 and 1899 but according to Gaumont would be in the early 1900's. Who's correct? Who knows. Eventually she directed for Pathe and Metro but ended up out of the biz writing in fanzines.
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