ALICE GUY BLANCHÉ
Alice Guy Blaché was the first female film director. She first became involved in cinema whilst working for the Gaumont Film Company in the late 1890s. This was a period of great change in the cinema and Alice was the first to use many new inventions, (11)_______ sound and colour.
In 1907, Alice (12)_______ to New York where she started her own film company. She was (13)_______ successful, but, when Hollywood became the centre of the film world, the best days of the independent New York film companies were (14)_______. When Alice died in 1968, hardly anybody (15)_______ her name.