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18th(2016)



A Sticky Woman

Alice GUY-BLACHÉ

  • France
  • 1906
  • 2min
  • HD
  • black and white
  • Fiction

Comedy Labor Classic

SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

¨Ï\"A Sticky Woman\", a film by Alice Guy. Gaumont Production (1906). D.R.


Program Note

Comedy was the very genre in which Alice GUY-BLACHÉ¡¯s
 splendid talent lay, and the issues of sex and class were her favorite topics
 used to satirize the characteristics of modern times. This film is one of the
 films where her specialty was fully concentrated, along with the film The
 Hierarchies of Love (1906). A Madame uses her maid¡¯s tongue to lick lots of
 stamps. This maid becomes a licking machine whose purpose is the enhancement of
 efficiency and productivity. A sudden kiss from a rushing man raises a laugh
 and this with the unexpected catastrophe he brings with him. [CHO HeyYoung]


 

PROGRAM NOTE

SYNOPSIS

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

¨Ï\"A Sticky Woman\", a film by Alice Guy. Gaumont Production (1906). D.R.


Program Note

Comedy was the very genre in which Alice GUY-BLACHÉ¡¯s
 splendid talent lay, and the issues of sex and class were her favorite topics
 used to satirize the characteristics of modern times. This film is one of the
 films where her specialty was fully concentrated, along with the film The
 Hierarchies of Love (1906). A Madame uses her maid¡¯s tongue to lick lots of
 stamps. This maid becomes a licking machine whose purpose is the enhancement of
 efficiency and productivity. A sudden kiss from a rushing man raises a laugh
 and this with the unexpected catastrophe he brings with him. [CHO HeyYoung]


 

Director

  • Alice GUY-BLACHÉAlice GUY-BLACHÉ

    "Born in 1873 in Paris, France, Alice GUY-BLACHÉ was a pioneer of both French and American film. She first started out as the secretary to Léon GAUMONT, unknowingly stepping into the vortex from which cinema would be born. She, who was at the Lumière Brothers' first screening in 1895, realized that movies could do more than document workers leaving a factory. She asked her boss, GAUMONT, for permission to do something better: to tell a story. Despite her youth and inexperience, she wrote her own script and succeeded in making one of the first narrative films, The Cabbage Fairy, in 1896, which preceded the story films of Georges MÉLIÈS. She worked as head of film production for the Gaumont Film Company in Paris until 1907 when she moved to the United States. Three years later, she created her own company, Solax, and set up a studio in 1912, becoming the first woman to own and run a studio plant. Her innovative filmmaking career in France (1896-1907) and the United States (1910-1920), in which she employed color tinting, 'trick' photography, interracial casting, and synchronized sound, is comprised of more than a thousand films which she wrote, produced, or directed. Despite the depth of her work, her contribution in shaping early cinematic history has been overlooked, and she is often revered as a lost great visionary of cinema.

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