Lights! Camera! Alice! The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker by Mara Rockliff and illustrated by Simona Ciraolo and published by Chronicle Books in San Francisco in 2018. Alice was a inventive pioneering filmmaker-doing such innovative things like running the film backward, stop motion filming so that objects appeared to move on their own, hand coloring frames (see the gypsy film), and added sound before other filmmakers had figured out how to do such things. Unfortunately a number of Alice's films were credited to men-some of whom had never even made a film She chronicled her life story and eventually in the 1980's it came to light and was published in America. Thanks to the sons of Leon Gaumont who found information in their father's papers and made it public in France she received the Legion of Honor in 1955. Thank you to "Looking For Alice" who has compiled a number of short films made by Alice Guy-Blache. See some of these films at: https://www.youtube.com/user/LookingForAlice/videos
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