La fée aux choux, ou la naissance des enfants
A fairy appears on screen in the middle of a vegetable garden, giving birth to a baby dug out from the cabbage patch. A burlesque variation on the myth that, in France, babies are born from cabbages.
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"This film is a remake from the year 1900 of an 1896 film by the same woman director, Alice Guy. I was astounded when viewing this 1900 film. The 1896 original was, I was informed, the first film ever directed by a woman. One might expect a woman's touch in her own remake? Instead this 1900 version depicts what amounts to risking harm to babies, perhaps not deliberate but totally inexcusable, needless and careless! The film is a 'fantasy' with a mother nature figure grinning inanely and posing whilst plucking babies out of the cabbage patch. It is quite clear the 1st two babies ..."
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This is a remake Alice Guy made of her original short La fée aux choux (1896), which is considered lost.
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A fairy appears on screen in the middle of a vegetable garden, giving birth to a baby dug out from the cabbage patch. A burlesque variation on the myth that, in France, babies are born from cabbages.