Alice Guy-Blaché: At age 22, Alice got a job working at what became the Gaumont Film Company, the first film studio in history. In 1896, with Léon Gaumont’s permission, Alice directed “La Fée aux Choux” (“The Cabbage Fairy”), a film about how how babies are born and the world’s first narrative film. Alice directed hundreds of films over the next ten years, and over a thousand in all. In 1907, Alice moved to the United States, opening her own studio, the Solax Company. Alice’s key instruction to her actors was to “be natural” (a phrase written in giant letters on the studio wall). Alice was among the first filmmakers to use close-ups, hand-tinted color, and synchronized sound.