21d • Business Help & Strategy
Build the Studio. Not Just the Script.
Hollywood is suing AI companies to stop them from stealing actors’ faces.
But the film industry has been stealing women’s work since the beginning.
Welcome to Day 24 of Deleted History— the women they prayed you would never Google.
Her name is Alice Guy-Blaché.
Before Hollywood.
Before Oscars.
Before today’s AI copyright battles.
There was a 20-something secretary in Paris who looked at a clunky camera and thought:
“This isn’t just a machine. This is a storytelling weapon.”
While men filmed trains and street scenes, Alice wrote and directed one of the first narrative films ever made.
While they treated cameras like lab equipment, she used them to invent on-screen fiction, special effects, and synced sound.
While they waited for an industry, she built a studio.
She went from “just the secretary” at a camera company…
to head of production, supervising hundreds of films.
Then she crossed the ocean and did something wild for the 1910s:
She built Solax Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Soundstages. Crews. Distribution.
Over 1,000 films written, directed, or produced across her career.
And then?
History did to Alice what today’s AI models try to do to creators:
It scraped her work.
Reassigned her credit.
Acted like her genius belonged to the men around her.
The same industry now running to court yelling “protect our IP” quietly erased the woman who helped create it.
Hollywood didn’t suddenly discover respect for creators because of AI.
It’s just different people getting exploited now.
Alice Guy-Blaché is the original cautionary tale and the blueprint:
If you only make content, they can erase you.
If you build categories and infrastructure, they have to chase you.
She didn’t wait for permission.
She treated her vision like law and built around it.
That’s exactly what we’re doing at Black Women Sell Live 2026.
There are over 5,100 women on the waitlist.
There are only 850 seats.
Tickets open February 25th —
and they open to the waitlist only on that date.
If you’re a Black woman expert who refuses to be the invisible genius behind everyone else’s success story, you need to be in that room.
Because in 10 years, either you’ll be the woman they “forget” to credit…
or the one they can’t tell the story without.
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