Lights! Camera! Alice! the thrilling true adventures of the first woman filmmaker
Meet Alice Guy-Blaché. She made movies--some of the very first movies, and some of the most exciting! Blow up a pirate ship? Why not? Crawl into a tiger's cage? Of course! Leap off a bridge onto a real speeding train? It will be easy! Driven by her passion for storytelling, Alice saw a potenti...
| Main Author: | Rockliff, Mara (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Ciraolo, Simona (Illustrator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
San Franscisco :
Chronicle Books,
[2018]
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| Summary: |
Meet Alice Guy-Blaché. She made movies--some of the very first movies, and some of the most exciting! Blow up a pirate ship? Why not? Crawl into a tiger's cage? Of course! Leap off a bridge onto a real speeding train? It will be easy! Driven by her passion for storytelling, Alice saw a potential for film that others had not seen before, allowing her to develop new narratives, new camera angles, new techniques, and to surprise her audiences again and again. With daring and vision, Alice Guy-Blaché introduced the world to a thrilling frontier of imagination and adventure, and became one of filmmaking's first and greatest innovators. |
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| Physical Description: |
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781452141343 1452141347 |
| Author Notes: |
Simona Ciraolo is a children's book author and illustrator. She grew up in Italy where she received a degree in animation from the National Film School. She also earned an MA in children's book illustration at Cambridge. She lives in London. |