When we last checked in on Alice Guy-Blache, the pioneering female director was the subject of a Kickstarter campaign aimed at funding a film about her life. The campaign was successful, and the work continues – with some twists, says director and producer Pamela Green. Turns out there’s more of Guy-Blache’s work than Green and co-producer Gala Minasova thought. Like that of many silent directors, Guy-Blache’s films have been inconsistently catalogued or lost over the decades. The new effort has helped turn up more Guy-Blache films, as well as attracted the interest of film collectors. "When Alice passed away (in 1968) she thought she only had three films that survived," Green says. But while Green and her colleagues were doing research, they determined that the famed Charlie Tarbox collection – which included 15,000 early films – had come into the possession of a collector named Jeff Aikman in the mid-‘80s. Aikman also owns 25,000 other works, including newsreels and rare shorts.
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