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Alice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) was the first female pioneer in early French cinema. She is revered as the first female director and writer of narrative fiction films, and is seen as a great visionary who experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sound syncing system, color tinting, interracial casting, and special effects. ==Early life and education== In 1863 France, Alice's father, Emile Guy – an owner of a bookstore chain and publishing company in colonial Chile – married Alice's French mother, Marie Clotilde Franceline Aubert, shortly after they were introduced through mutual family friends. The couple returned to Santiago, Chile, soon after the wedding. In early 1873 Marie and Emile lived in French Colony occupied Santiago, Chile, along with Alice's other Chile-born siblings and her father. However, they traveled the seven weeks by boat to Saint–Mande – a city near Paris, France – for the birth of their fifth child, Alice Ida Antoinette Guy, on July 1, 1873. In her autobiography Alice refers to this plan as her mother's last attempt to make sure "one of her children should be French". Her father returned to Chile soon after her birth and her mother was quick to follow. This left a young Alice entrusted to her elderly grandparents in Carouge, Switzerland until the age of three or four. She then left to join her parents in Chile, where she learned Spanish from the family's indigenous Chilean housekeeper, Conchita. At the age of six Alice was sent back to France, and to attend school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart on the Swiss border. Alice's siblings were also sent away as soon as they were old enough to travel. The overall sentiment amongst French colonists at the time was that French Jesuit schooling was the only proper form of education. But her father's chain of bookstores went bankrupt while Alice was overseas, resulting in her and her second youngest sister moving to a more affordable school. Soon after this Alice's eldest brother died at the age of 17. Their father, struck by business woes and old age, died in 1893. Following her father's death Guy trained as a typist and stenographer – which was a new field at the time – to support her and her newly widowed mother. She landed her first job at a varnish factory. A year later, 1894, she began working with Léon Gaumont at Comptoir général de al photographie. Léon Gaumont would later take over and head the company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Guy-Blaché」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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