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• Bait and Swit6ch TV: Investiga

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    CONTROVERSY  -- Come see Bait and Switch TV: Investigative Satire ; Sat 2PM at the Renberg!!
    

    We're all Nipple-Pinching, Effing Doomed - NOT!

    
    Unlike other comedy news shows, each Bait and Switch TV episode examines one controversial topic in tremendous detail. Then, this new INTERNET TV CHANNEL encourages the audience on BOTH sides of an episode's controversy to get involved and act on the issues via LIVE ONLINE DEBATES and various pro and con ACTIVISM efforts organized, tracked, and implemented from this baitandswitchtv.com website. We also provide COMICAL ONLINE GAMES tied to each TV episode/controversy, some of them multiplayer games, that allow you to interact with other viewers.
    
    What this TV channel does is continually put a controversy in focus while asking the audience to consider:
    
    HOW DO ANY OF US KNOW WHAT'S TRUE ANYMORE?
    
    We collect and organize deep-dive evidence and positions on both sides of an issue for your review, never dumbing it down, and deliberately punching it up with levity , animation, and music to help make some dire or dreary news and views easier to consume. Then we schedule LIVE DEBATES with experts on both sides of the issues we examined in the TV shows to INCLUDE you in the conversation. This allows YOU to interview the experts and policy makers directly.
    
    Unlike mainstream news gatherers, we trust you the audience to stick with the investigation of a complex, longterm argument with the option of learning more and getting personally involved. Then we invite you to actually get involved with these issues and controversies, which affect us all, when the outcome or direction of the controversy matters to you.
    
    For example, in the first episode on the US meat, poultry, and dairy food supply, Bait and Switch TV does not suggest you stop eating meat, or that you buy only organic meats (we dont even mention organic meats or dairy foods). Truly, we want you to think and decide for yourselves. However, we do tell you in some detail what is IN this food supply and how some of it is manufactured (this episode is about ingredients, not about animal treatment). A lot of the ingredients in meat production ARE being tested on you. These compounds, drugs, GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS, and technologies may or may not be safe, but the FDA recently passed a law, the NO LABELING LAW, that states that you have NO RIGHT TO KNOW if you're eating cloned meat or dairy, for example. Whether you think cloned or genetically-engineered food experiments are a good or bad thing, this is still America and you DO have a right to know. So one of the Activism efforts is geared toward overturning the NO LABELING LAW. Another is directed at supporting the current Antibiotics Misuse bill Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, and put an end to the dangerous overuse of important human antibiotics in the feed and water of animals that are not sick which is an indisputable contributor to the emergence of antibiotic resistance and antibiotics that no longer work in sick humans.
    
    But to be clear, we are a PRO science, technology, and innovation investigative group. In our epigenetics episode, we firmly support and herald new, emerging epigenetic therapies for cancer treatment--this new science may well be the cure to cancer in our lifetime! And our nanotechnology episode is again a very positive examination of technologies and advancements that will make an important and essential difference in the lives of countless people around the world. Should these technologies be tested on you? YOU decide!
    
    On the political spectrum, there are countless controversies to bone up on, most of them anything but black and white. And there is so much divisiveness over many of these issues that Bait and Switch TV strives to find the path on which opposing positions can meet and together find inroads to the power structure and decision-making circles that, these days, seem only to serve lobbyists and power brokers. We do need to start standing together. There is so much at stake now, and the time has come to take a firm hold on our democracy, or lose it.
    
    Our US constitution and free market system have led to the greatest individual liberty, prosperity, freedom, power, honor, and security ever known to mankind. But the people in this country are considered too stupid to understand "the issues" and details, and too many mainstream depictions of the controversies and important issues in our cultural landscape are either polarized to the point of absurdity or dumbed down to the point of irrelevance--allowing only those in power to have access to the facts to use and repurpose as they wish.
    
    Let's join together to become more informed, to laugh and learn together, and to be more directly engaged in our representational democracy. This is how TV can become truly interactive! Let's stand behind the American belief in a free-market supply and demand system, but one that also advocates, and demands, an informed populace and a capitalism enacted with conscience and integrity.
    
    Here are some of the controversies and issues B

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• Bait and Switch TV: Investigat

  • From: leestanion
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    CONTROVERSY

    We're all Nipple-Pinching, Effing Doomed - NOT!

    
    Unlike other comedy news shows, each Bait and Switch TV episode examines one controversial topic in tremendous detail. Then, this new INTERNET TV CHANNEL encourages the audience on BOTH sides of an episode's controversy to get involved and act on the issues via LIVE ONLINE DEBATES and various pro and con ACTIVISM efforts organized, tracked, and implemented from the baitandswitchtv.com website (this is a promo site but the actual interent tv channel is in development at http://www.stanionstudios.com/new   --feel free to take a peak!). We also provide COMICAL ONLINE GAMES tied to each TV episode/controversy, some of them multiplayer games, that allow you to interact with other viewers.
    
    What this TV channel does is continually put a controversy in focus while asking the audience to consider:
    
    HOW DO ANY OF US KNOW WHAT'S TRUE ANYMORE?
    
    We collect and organize deep-dive evidence and positions on both sides of an issue for your review, never dumbing it down, and deliberately punching it up with levity , animation, and music to help make some dire or dreary news and views easier to consume. Then we schedule LIVE DEBATES with experts on both sides of the issues we examined in the TV shows to INCLUDE you in the conversation. This allows YOU to interview the experts and policy makers directly.
    
    Unlike mainstream news gatherers, we trust you the audience to stick with the investigation of a complex, longterm argument with the option of learning more and getting personally involved. Then we invite you to actually get involved with these issues and controversies, which affect us all, when the outcome or direction of the controversy matters to you.
    
    For example, in the first episode on the US meat, poultry, and dairy food supply, Bait and Switch TV does not suggest you stop eating meat, or that you buy only organic meats (we dont even mention organic meats or dairy foods). Truly, we want you to think and decide for yourselves. However, we do tell you in some detail what is IN this food supply and how some of it is manufactured (this episode is about ingredients, not about animal treatment). A lot of the ingredients in meat production ARE being tested on you. These compounds, drugs, GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS, and technologies may or may not be safe, but the FDA recently passed a law, the NO LABELING LAW, that states that you have NO RIGHT TO KNOW if you're eating cloned meat or dairy, for example. Whether you think cloned or genetically-engineered food experiments are a good or bad thing, this is still America and you DO have a right to know. So one of the Activism efforts is geared toward overturning the NO LABELING LAW. Another is directed at supporting the current Antibiotics Misuse bill Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, and put an end to the dangerous overuse of important human antibiotics in the feed and water of animals that are not sick which is an indisputable contributor to the emergence of antibiotic resistance and antibiotics that no longer work in sick humans.
    
    But to be clear, we are a PRO science, technology, and innovation investigative group. In our epigenetics episode, we firmly support and herald new, emerging epigenetic therapies for cancer treatment--this new science may well be the cure to cancer in our lifetime! And our nanotechnology episode is again a very positive examination of technologies and advancements that will make an important and essential difference in the lives of countless people around the world. Should these technologies be tested on you? YOU decide!
    
    On the political spectrum, there are countless controversies to bone up on, most of them anything but black and white. And there is so much divisiveness over many of these issues that Bait and Switch TV strives to find the path on which opposing positions can meet and together find inroads to the power structure and decision-making circles that, these days, seem only to serve lobbyists and power brokers. We do need to start standing together. There is so much at stake now, and the time has come to take a firm hold on our democracy, or lose it.
    
    Our US constitution and free market system have led to the greatest individual liberty, prosperity, freedom, power, honor, and security ever known to mankind. But the people in this country are considered too stupid to understand "the issues" and details, and too many mainstream depictions of the controversies and important issues in our cultural landscape are either polarized to the point of absurdity or dumbed down to the point of irrelevance--allowing only those in power to have access to the facts to use and repurpose as they wish.
    
    Let's join together to become more informed, to laugh and learn together, and to be more directly engaged in our representational democracy. This is how TV can become truly interactive! Let's stand behind the American belief in a free-market supply and demand system, but one that also advocates, and demands, an informed populace and a capitalism enacted with conscience and integrity.
    
    Here are some of the controversies and issues -- see www.stanionstudios.com/new

    --Leesa Stanion

    STANION STUDIOS

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• Bait and Switch TV Episode 1

  • From: leestanion
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    Bait and Switch TV: Investigative Satirep
    Episode 1
    Raging Hormones
    For Fun & Profit
    
    What's in YOUR Gullet?
    
    A probing look at the US meat, poultry, and dairy food supply.
    
    Bait and Switch TV examines controversies and cultural landscapes with the comedic force of a backhoe, digging much deeper than the mainstream news while keeping you laughing.

    Welcome to Bait and Switch TV! An entertaining, eye-opening new internet TV channel and Activist TV series
    Each TV episode is a deep-dive investigation of a serious, controversial, or hot-button issue in the American landscape, dipped and steeped and drizzled with comedy. Why examine serious topics with comedy? Because, as you'll see, so many of these life and death topics lend themselves perfectly to theater of the absurd.

     

    Starring Becky Washo, Dave Burleigh, Larry "Bubbles" Brown (from the David Letterman show, Johnny Steele, Ellsworth Hall, and Joe Klocek!

    Watch the Shows! <> Listen to the comedian pundits! <> Question experts during our Live Online Debates
    Play comical online Games <> Act on the Issues! <> Become a Producer!

     

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• Bait and Switch TV Comedian Ho

  • From: leestanion
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    Bait and Switch TV: Investigative Satirep
    Episode 1
    Raging Hormones
    For Fun & Profit
    
    What's in YOUR Gullet?
    
    A probing look at the US meat, poultry, and dairy food supply.
    
    Bait and Switch TV examines controversies and cultural landscapes with the comedic force of a backhoe, digging much deeper than the mainstream news while keeping you laughing.

    Welcome to Bait and Switch TV! An entertaining, eye-opening new internet TV channel and Activist TV series
    Each TV episode is a deep-dive investigation of a serious, controversial, or hot-button issue in the American landscape, dipped and steeped and drizzled with comedy. Why examine serious topics with comedy? Because, as you'll see, so many of these life and death topics lend themselves perfectly to theater of the absurd.

     

    Starring Becky Washo, Dave Burleigh, Larry "Bubbles" Brown (from the David Letterman show, Johnny Steele, Ellsworth Hall, and Joe Klocek!

    Watch the Shows! <> Listen to the comedian pundits! <> Question experts during our Live Online Debates
    Play comical online Games <> Act on the Issues! <> Become a Producer!

     

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• New Bait and Switch TV: Invest

  • From: leestanion
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    Bait and Switch TV: Investigative Satirep
    Episode 1
    Raging Hormones
    For Fun & Profit
    
    What's in YOUR Gullet?
    
    A probing look at the US meat, poultry, and dairy food supply.
    
    Bait and Switch TV examines controversies and cultural landscapes with the comedic force of a backhoe, digging much deeper than the mainstream news while keeping you laughing.

    Welcome to Bait and Switch TV! An entertaining, eye-opening new internet TV channel and Activist TV series
    Each TV episode is a deep-dive investigation of a serious, controversial, or hot-button issue in the American landscape, dipped and steeped and drizzled with comedy. Why examine serious topics with comedy? Because, as you'll see, so many of these life and death topics lend themselves perfectly to theater of the absurd.

     

    Starring Becky Washo, Dave Burleigh, Larry "Bubbles" Brown (from the David Letterman show, Johnny Steele, Ellsworth Hall, and Joe Klocek!

    Watch the Shows! <> Listen to the comedian pundits! <> Question experts during our Live Online Debates
    Play comical online Games <> Act on the Issues! <> Become a Producer!

     

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• Bait and Switch TV -- 60 episo

  • From: leestanion
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    Bait and Switch TV: Investigative Satirep
    Episode 1
    Raging Hormones
    For Fun & Profit
    
    What's in YOUR Gullet?
    
    A probing look at the US meat, poultry, and dairy food supply.
    
    Bait and Switch TV examines controversies and cultural landscapes with the comedic force of a backhoe, digging much deeper than the mainstream news while keeping you laughing.

    Welcome to Bait and Switch TV! An entertaining, eye-opening new internet TV channel and Activist TV series
    Each TV episode is a deep-dive investigation of a serious, controversial, or hot-button issue in the American landscape, dipped and steeped and drizzled with comedy. Why examine serious topics with comedy? Because, as you'll see, so many of these life and death topics lend themselves perfectly to theater of the absurd.

     

    Starring Becky Washo, Dave Burleigh, Larry "Bubbles" Brown (from the David Letterman show, Johnny Steele, Ellsworth Hall, and Joe Klocek!

    Watch the Shows! <> Listen to the comedian pundits! <> Question experts during our Live Online Debates
    Play comical online Games <> Act on the Issues! <> Become a Producer!

     

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• Girl Clock!

  • From: Girlclockgirls
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    Girl Clock is a heartwarming, zany, coming of MIDDLE age comedy that follows the journey of three normal women who would happily enjoy their forties, if only Mother Nature wasn't so cruel!

    Globe-trotting Christine wakes up one ordinary day to find that her biological clock has gone off with a vengeance. But for a commitment-phobe on the wrong side of 40, the road to motherhood is strewn with bedlam, calamity and smoked-out eggs. When she turns to her life long friends Margo and Mikki for support, she finds them equally embattled; Margo zealously guarding the door to her recently emptied nest, and Mikki frantically fighting her evil twin foes; Sagging and Drooping.  Collectively, however, the girls are a force to be reckoned with, so together they take on the might of Mother Nature with hilarious results.

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• If you thought puberty was har

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• Girlclockgirls

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• Viesso: Couch Therapy

  • From: jjenred5
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    The Viesso customer is a 30-40 year old with a modern sense of style seeking to furnish a home or second apartment.  They are urban, educated and fashionable.  They have very specific opinions and require highly personalized solutions.

    The client sought a sexy, funny ad that highlighted the fully customizable nature of their products.  They wanted something edgy yet grown up.  Youthful but evolved.  Their goal was a provocative spot with a playful spirit.

    It has won Best Commercial at the Elevate Film Festival and Best Consumer Goods Online Ad from the IAC.

     

    Crew

    Director & Co-Writer: Jen McGowan

    DP & Co-Writer: Philip Lott

    Producer: Paula Bird

    Production Designer: Natasha Gerasimova

    Editor: Brian Avenet-Bradley

     

    Cast

    Husband: Jerrold Morello

    Wife: Lindsay Zir

    Therapist: Clark Mitchell Long

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• Viesso: Couch Therapy

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• shile

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• rakler

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• Road Reps Trailer

  • From: russowall
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    A pharmaceutical sales rep embarks on a road trip odyssey with his four divorcé buddies for business and pleasure. The excursion evolves into a competitive race against his estranged wife to win over an important client in a remote territory.
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• WEDDING JIMMY

  • From: lisapescia
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    There's only one thing stopping Jimmy from walking down the aisle tomorrow.....his fiancee's smoking hot sister!
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• CU@Ed's Director Statement

  • From: casey
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    I call C U@ED'S an awkward comedy - it's a fun, quirky piece about two misfits looking for connection. I was attracted to the project because I see the Internet as a bridge to facilitate discovery. Throughout history people have been scared of technological advance. There's always naysayers who fear that machines will take over, that we are being de-humanized and isolated from each other. But I think we're hard wired to crave the company of others and we'll use any tool at our disposal to make connection happen. In my movie Tadd and Tina are socially inept and at first they are defeated by the enormity of face to face contact. But the Internet ultimately transforms their virtual connection into the real thing and they get to experience an old fashioned movie date in their own way.

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• Defying Gravity

  • From: balancingact
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    A ROAD MOVIE IN A HEARSE.
    
    'Defying Gravity' is a quirky comedy about a runaway girl who lives in a cemetery. She is befriended by the cemetery caretaker (an illegal alien), a transvestite waitress, and a homeless young man haunted by mathematical and religious delusions.

    Starring Willam Belli, Macauley Gray, Mario Martinez, Alexandra Mathews, Tony Franchitto, Bea Bernstein.

    
    Produced and Written by Lisa Savy James. Directed by Michael Keller. Executive Produced by Craig James. Cinematography by Justin Talley. Edited by Brian Voelkerding. Sound Recorded by Jared immons. Post Sound by Christopher Briles. Music by Eric Kufs, Tom Schultz, and Leo James.

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• Boob Jobs & Jesus

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    3-Line Synopsis
    All the pain and suffering Carlin Glass has endured in her life is finally going to pay off today at her first book signing for her debut novel. Unfortunately the event is turning out to be as thwarted as her life, that is until the book signing is crashed by the novel's unwilling subject, her ever eccentric mother.

    Directed by Marshall McCabe & Ursula Whittaker

    Produced by Margaret Buckley, Tamra Raven & Ursula Whittaker

    Written by Ursula Whittaker

    Starring Carolyn Hennesy, Ursula Whittaker & Rebecca O'Brien

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• ursulawhitt

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• Alice Guy "La fee aux Choux" 1

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    Alice.guy.1896 La Fée
    1896 sorlie de"La fée aux choux" premier des + 600 films réalisées par Alice Guy Blaché
    Alice.guy.1896 key dates
    Publié le 07/07/2007 à 15:42

    Par Alice Guy Jr.

    CONTENT BEGINS HERE Key Dates in the Life of Alice Guy Blaché 1873 -- Alice Guy's French parents, Mariette and Emil Guy, live in Santiago, Chile, but Guy's mother travels to Paris to give birth to her fifth child. Guy is raised by her grandmother in Switzerland until she is three or four years old. 1877 (approx.) -- Her mother comes to collect her daughter and take her home to Santiago. In Santiago Guy meets her father for the first time. 1879 (approx.) -- Her father brings her back to France and enrolls her in the boarding school where two of her older sisters are already studying. 1884 (approx.) -- Her father's bookstore chain is bankrupted by a series of violent earthquakes, fires, and thefts. Her parents return to France and her older sisters quickly marry. Guy is transferred to a cheaper boarding school. Her brother dies after a long illness, and her father dies soon after. 1893 -- Guy has trained as a typist and stenographer and gets her first job as a secretary for a company that sells varnishing products. 1894 -- Guy is hired by La Gaumont, the "second-in-command" to work for Felix Richard's still-photography company. Soon after, Richard loses a patent suit and is forced to go out of business. Leon Gaumont buys the inventory and starts his own company, taking Guy with him. Guy is present when Georges Demenÿ demonstrates his phonoscope and offers Gaumont the patent for his biographe, a 60mm motion picture camera. March 22, 1895 -- Gaumont and Guy are invited by the Lumière brothers to witness a demonstration of their cinématographe, a 35mm motion picture camera, at the Société d'encouragement ˆ l'industrie nationale. Guy persuades La Gaumont to let her use the Gaumont camera to direct a story film. 1896 -- Guy writes, produces and directs La Fée aux choux (The Cabbage Fairy). 1897 --La Gaumont makes Guy head of film production, a post she holds until 1906. By 1906 she will have produced over 400 films . 1902 -- Gaumont demonstrates his chronophone, a synchronized-sound system. 1902-1906 -- Guy directs over 100 phonoscènes, films made for the chronophone. 1906 -- Herbert Blaché, a Gaumont manager, is assigned to serve as Guy's cameraman on Mireille. Later, Guy is sent to Berlin to oversee demonstrations of the chronophone and assist Blaché with sales. Christmas Day, 1906 -- Blaché and Guy are officially engaged. Guy is 33, Blaché is 24. Spring, 1907 -- Guy and Blaché marry. Gaumont sends Blaché to the U.S. to promote a chronophone franchise. Guy resigns her position to accompany her husband to the U.S. 1907 -- The Blachés spend nine months in Cleveland working with investors to promote a chronophone franchise. The effort is unsuccessful. 1908 -- Gaumont hires Herbert Blaché to manage his studio in Flushing, New York, for the production of phonoscènes in English. Lois Weber is among the performers hired, and she is later given the opportunity to direct phonoscènes herself. 1908 -- Guy gives birth to her daughter, Simone. 1910 -- Tempted by the Gaumont studio in Flushing, New York, that is underused, Guy creates her own company, Solax, and rents the Gaumont studio space. Her early films are melodramas and westerns. 1911 -- Guy gives birth to her son, Reginald. 1912 -- Solax is so successful that Guy builds a studio in Fort Lee New Jersey , said to cost over $100,000. Solax produces two one-reelers (10-15 minute films) a week and develops a stable of stars. Guy writes and directs at least half of these films and oversees all production. Her rate of production equals that of D.W. Griffith, working at Biograph just a few miles away. 1912 -- Gaumont has a falling out with George Kleine, a member of the Motion Picture Patents Company and his U.S. distributor. Gaumont moves over from the "licensed" side of distribution to join the ranks of the independents. Since Solax's films are distributed through Gaumont in both the U.S. and France, Solax joins the ranks of the independents along with Gaumont. March 1, 1913 -- Release date of Dick Whittington and His Cat. With a length of three reels (45 minutes), a $35,000 budget and elaborate staging (including burning a boat) and costuming, it is Guy's most ambitious Solax project. June 1913 -- Blaché's contract with Gaumont expires and Guy makes him president of Solax so that she can concentrate on writing and directing. After three months, Blaché resigns and starts his own film company, Blaché Features. Blaché Features uses Solax's plant, inventory and actors, making the two companies hardly distinguishable for a few months. Blaché Features' production eventually supersedes Solax production, so that by 1914 Solax is virtually defunct. August 1913-August 1914 -- Blaché and Guy alternate producing and directing longer films (three and four reels) for Blaché features. 1914-1916 -- The market now demands feature-length films (five reels or more). The Blachés join Popular Plays and Players, a production company which produces features for distributors such as Metro, Pathé, and World Film Corporation. These films are shot in the former Solax Studio in Fort Lee, which still belongs to the Blachés. 1916 -- The Blachés are dissatisfied with their distribution arrangement and decide to part ways with Popular Plays and Players. As the U.S. Amusement Corporation, they produce feature films and make their own distribution deals with the same distributors who bought the films from Popular Plays and Players. Guy directs seven features, including The Ocean Waif. 1917 -- The former Solax studio is now rented out to other companies, starting with Apollo Pictures. At age 44, Guy has an excellent reputation as a film director but her last few films have not been commercially successful. Blaché, who is 35, is enjoying the attention of young actresses. In the fall of 1917, Simone, age nine, and Reginald, age five, contract rougeola become seriously ill. Blaché sends his family to the healthier environment of North Carolina, where Guy cares for her children and takes part in the war effort by volunteering for the Red Cross while her husband continues to manage business in Fort Lee. 1918 -- Blaché finds his wife a job directing The Great Adventure for Pathé Players. The film, a comedy, is commercially successful. 1918 -- Blaché moves to Hollywood with Catrine Calvert, an actress who has starred in four films directed by Guy. Guy gives up her house in Fort Lee and moves into an apartment in New York City. 1919 -- Léonce Perret hires Guy to write and direct Tarnished Reputations, offering her $2,000 for six weeks of work. The film takes ten weeks to make and in the process Guy contracts Spanish influenza, which kills four of her colleagues. Blaché, passing through New York, is alarmed by her condition and invites her to join him in California. 1920 -- Guy moves into a small bungalow in Los Angeles with her children. Blaché does not live with them, but hires Guy as his directing assistant on The Brat and Stronger than Death, both starring Alla Nazimova. A few months later Guy is called back to Fort Lee to oversee the auction of the Solax properties. In the middle of bankruptcy arrangements, a polio epidemic sweeps the Northeast and Guy, imitating her friends the Capellanis, flees with her children to Canada. Tarnished Reputations opens March 14, 1920. It is Guy's last film. 1922 -- Bankruptcy proceedings are finished and the Blachés are divorced. Guy (now calling herself Alice Guy-Blaché) returns with her children to France. 1922-1927 Guy's efforts to work in the French film industry do not bear fruit. She returns to the U.S. in 1927 to try to find copies of her films to use to find work. She finds none, even at the Library of Congress where some of them were copyrighted. When the silent film era ends in 1929, it becomes clear that she will not make films again. She becomes financially dependent on her children, especially her daughter, Simone. 1930 -- Léon Gaumont publishes a history of the Gaumont company which does not mention any of the film production before 1907. Guy embarks on a deferential letter writing campaign to correct his omissions. Gaumont agrees to add to his document and corrects the manuscript himself, but it remains unpublished at his death in 1946. 1937 -- Guy's son Reginald returns to the U.S. Simone and Guy move to Paris , where Simone's work prospects are better. Guy supplements her daughter's meager income by writing children's stories and novelizations of films for women's magazines. 1940 -- Simone Blaché begins her career working for U.S. embassies in Europe. Guy follows her daughter on various assignments, first in Vichy (1940) then Geneva (1941-1947). 1947 -- Guy makes guest speaker appearances at high schools and women's clubs in Switzerland. The success of these informal appearances leads her to write her Memoirs. 1947-1952 -- Simone and Guy live in Washington D.C. In Georgetown Guy begins to seriously work on her memoirs and filmography, and renews the search for her films. She begins a correspondence with Louis Gaumont, Léon Gaumont's son. December 8, 1954 -- Louis Gaumont gives a speech in Paris on "Madame Alice Guy Blaché, the First Woman Filmmaker" whom, he says, "has been unjustly forgotten." Film historians such as: Jean Mitry, Georges Sadoul, René Jeanne and Charles Ford begin to take notice of her. 1955 -- Guy is awarded the Légion d'Honneur, France's highest non-military honor. March 16 1957 -- Guy is honored in a Cinémathèque Fran?aise ceremony which goes unnoticed by the press. 1958 -- Simone is transferred to the U.S. embassy in Brussels. 1963 -- Victor Bachy , the professor who initiated the academic study of cinema in Belgium, meets Guy by accident and begins researching her work. 1965 -- Guy and her daughter move to New Jersey. March 24, 1968 -- Guy dies in a nursing home in New Jersey, at the age of 95. 1976 -- Publication of Guy's Memoirs in French, with a filmography by Francis Lasassin. 1986 -- Publication of Guy's Memoirs in English, edited by Anthony Slide, translated by Roberta and Simone Blaché. 1994 -- Publication of Victor Bachy's Alice Guy-Blaché: La Première femme cinéaste du monde.

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