A young couple go shopping for a baby.A young couple go shopping for a baby.A young couple go shopping for a baby.
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- TriviaIncluded on the "Alice Guy Blanche Vol. 1: The Gaumont Years" blu-ray, released by Kino.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Le jardin oublié: La vie et l'oeuvre d'Alice Guy-Blaché (1996)
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Cabbages and Kings
Although many of Alice Guy's movies were simply shot one-scene re-enactments of short vaudeville skits -- what would later evolve into black-out gags -- this was a rather elaborately staged work for her and mocks middle-class pretension, showing how they get their babies.... from a large cabbage patch in the midwife's garden! The sets are clearly sets.... not for Guy the elaborate backgrounds of Melies! Instead her viewpoint was that this was a theater piece and the aesthetics were those of someone sitting in a seat in a live theater. To a great extent, she maintained this viewpoint through the end of her career and it makes her work far less cinematic to the modern eye than the equally bizarre imaginings of Melies..... but hers is an important stage in the evolution of the modern film, something that had to be gotten through, and at least we can be grateful for her records of the contemporary stage.
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- boblipton
- Sep 4, 2009
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