Women Filmmakers in Silent Cinema: Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber, and Contemporaries (1900-1929)

1. Alice Guy directs early narrative film at Gaumont

   Jan 1, 1896Labels: Alice Guy, Gaumont

   • La F e
   • Alice Guy

2. Guy becomes a leading producer-director at Gaumont

   Jan 1, 1897Labels: Alice Guy, Gaumont

   • Alice Guy

3. Guy marries Herbert Blaché and moves to the U.S.

   Mar 6, 1907Labels: Alice Guy, Herbert Blach

   • Guy Chronology

4. Solax founded, with Guy as artistic director

   Jan 1, 1910Labels: Solax Company, Alice Guy-Blach

   • Solax Studios
   • Alice Guy

5. Guy directs early film with an all-Black cast

   Jan 1, 1912Labels: Alice Guy-Blach, A Fool

   • A Fool and
   • Solax Studios

6. Mabel Normand co-directs a major Keystone comedy

   Jan 1, 1914Labels: Mabel Normand, Keystone Studios

   • Mabel at the

7. Universal City opens amid studio expansion

   Mar 15, 1915Labels: Universal City, Universal Pictures

   • Academy Museum

8. Lois Weber directs major social-issue features

   May 1, 1916Labels: Lois Weber, Where Are

   • Where Are My
   • Shoes

9. Weber forms Lois Weber Productions

   Jun 1, 1917Labels: Lois Weber

   • Lois Weber

10. Guy-Blaché completes her final film as director

    Mar 14, 1920Labels: Alice Guy-Blach, Tarnished Reputations

    • Guy Chronology
    • Tarnished Reputations

11. Weber releases The Blot during career transition

    Jan 1, 1921Labels: Lois Weber, The Blot

    • The Blot

12. Dulac directs a landmark feminist silent short

    Jan 1, 1923Labels: Germaine Dulac, La Souriante

    • Madame Beudet
    • Britannica

13. Dorothy Arzner directs her first feature

    Jan 1, 1927Labels: Dorothy Arzner, Fashions for

    • Fashions for Women
    • Britannica

14. Dulac premieres The Seashell and the Clergyman

    Feb 9, 1928Labels: Germaine Dulac, The Seashell

    • Seashell Film
    • Reina Sofia

15. Silent era ends as sound reshapes film industry

    Jan 1, 1929Labels: Silent-to-Sound Transition

    • Guy Chronology
    • Arzner Bio