History is defined by the dominant While other voices have been kept sealed too longThis is why we should have a united front Nineteenth century France is where I belongThough I worked and lived also in the U.S.My passion for moving pictures was so strong That my first narrative film was a successThe Cabbage Patch Fairy even had sequelsBut I must start from my birth to then progress Emile and Marie Guy were no rebelsI was their fifth child and first wanted to actFather said it was not meant for demoiselles My reputation had to be kept intactIt was more bourgeois to learn stenographyMy skills working at Gaumont had an impact I began as a simple secretaryA private screening of the Lumière BrothersMade me see potential in this artistry I came up with close-ups, double exposures,Hand-tinted colours, special effects, split-screensAnd synchronised sound amongst many others French literature inspired some of my scenesThe Passion of Christ and social issues tooI tried to go beyond portraying routines An African-American cast came throughI discussed planned parenthood and child abuseKids are the best performers for how they’re true I was a working mum while I would produceSimone and Reginald were on set with meThey watched how I changed the traditions in use I had men and women swap clothes to be freeGender role reversals meant males in corsetsThe habitual garment for Alice Guy Blaché I became with marriage and more projectsI fell in love with Herbert, an English manFor him I relinquished Paris and baguettes We ventured into the New World with a planExpanding the magic of motion picturesSolax my production company began Fort Lee gave wave to cinematic mixturesI was thirty three and he was twenty fourAll was going according to the scriptures With the Great War no instant was as beforeThe licensing fees of Edison to workEnded East Coast filmmaking forevermore My husband was spellbound by Hollywood’s perkHis Californian girls led us to divorceI couldn’t find a job not even as a clerk Back to France with my children and no remorseYet the scene had changed for female directorsThe Great Depression deprived me of my force I depended on my daughter’s job sectorsAt the American Embassy posts changedThe two of us became country collectors In books about cinema I was estrangedMy works were credited to male filmmakersHistorians took no care in this exchange Many hundreds of screenplays I would createShooting and editing were all my domainEven the business plan I could conjugate Script theft was something I knew how to refrainI used powder to detect the fingerprintsWe were writing the new rules to entertain The Picture Show provided several glintsOne of the mistresses of my former consortHad her historical title in misprints Lois Weber was first in the U.S. courtI was the first female filmmaker worldwideThere’s no desire of merit in this report.