Alice Guy-Blaché was a pioneering filmmaker and one of the earliest female directors in the history of cinema. Her film "The Fairy of the Cabbages" (La Fée aux Choux) released in 1896, is considered to be one of the first narrative films ever made. It is a silent, black-and-white film that runs for approximately 60 seconds. Although it is a short film "The Fairy of the Cabbages" contains several notable examples in early film history. This film set the standard for future movies to come with the storytelling style it presented.
Narrative storytelling: "The Fairy of the Cabbages" is recognized as one of the first films to have a narrative structure, telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end. The film follows a fairy who, using a magic wand, brings newborn babies to life by plucking them from cabbages. Even though the film was only a minute long we get to see all of the different plot events in this story, the structure used allows us to not just watch a bunch of random events but a storyline instead.
Special effects: The film features early examples of special effects, as the fairy uses a magic wand to make the babies appear from the cabbages. This was achieved through simple stop-motion animation techniques, which was groundbreaking for its time. Today these techniques are seen a basic but at this time this was a huge deal. These stop-motion techniques were groundbreaking and allowed for more complex movies to occur.
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