Reel Jersey Girl, Alice Guy Blache, Honored
Alice Guy Blache, the first woman film director in cinema history, received honor on July 1, her birthday, as the Fort Lee Film Commission unveiled a new grave marker acknowledging her contributions in filmmaking in New Jersey, birthplace of the motion picture industry. A cinema pioneer, Madame Blache founded Solax Studio in Fort Lee in 1912, one hundred years ago. She made a consistent body of work, using developing technologies...