Midwife to the Upper Class (1902) Alice Guy

Midwife to the Upper Class is a 1902 film directed by • Chez le magnétiseur (1... . It is a three-character adaptation of the subject of her first film, The Cabbage Fairy (1896), for which Alice Guy had already made another "remake": • La Fée aux Choux (1900... .
Synopsis . A young peasant couple approaches the counter of a store where children are being sold. The saleswoman shows them various "items," but none of them seem to satisfy them. The shopkeeper then leads the couple to the storeroom-a garden overflowing with cabbages. She shows them different babies, which she extracts directly from the vegetables. After finding the baby that suits them, the young newlyweds settle the bill and leave.
The performers in this film are all women: Yvonne and Germaine Serand play the roles of the saleswoman and the young bride.
Compared to previous versions of The Cabbage Fairy (Alice Guy did not seem to consider this film under its catalog title, but as another version of her lost first film from 1896), this new version introduces a second setting (the store) and a couple as new characters. The success of the original Cabbage Fairy relied on a single scene: a fairy extracting real babies from giant theater cabbages. However, a new storyline idea, in particular, tarnishes the contemporary view of the film by reflecting the deep-rooted racism of that era: the introduction of a (fake) black baby, which is horrifyingly rejected by the prospective parents. The spontaneous rejection portrayed is difficult to watch in a film that already depicts the unsettling fantasy of being able to choose one's future child, adding a store and a couple with their savings pulled from a sock to the original enchanting scene. It is challenging to regard this version as a nostalgic vignette of Belle Époque fantasy... For that, the 1900 version would be preferred.

[@anthonygiglio9860]

Cabbage patch Kids😊 Great Bioscope Film 😊

[@fouaddaoudi4038]

Que c'est beaux

[@justinparsons4538]

I agree with you. The fact that the black baby is a doll shouldn't diminish how vile it is. This said, had it have been a real child, I think somehow it would be even more upsetting. Some form of cognitive dissonance going on innmy head clearly.

[@jeperdsmontemps258]

A 2 minutes 40 secondes. Ha ha ha ha !

[@iconaus]

la plus absurde des nombreuses choses absurdes de ce film