the glass and metal boxes at an exposition. Other Theories Cited sometimes is the theory that other people, namely Georges Hatot, (or perhaps some camera men at Gaumont) could have directed the 1896 or the 1900 La Fée aux Choux. During an interview with the Cinémathèque Française in 1948, Georges Hatot was asked an imprecise question about “the first films at Gaumont.” When Georges Hatot answered, he was talking about the films he directed as an independent contractor for Gaumont in the summer of 1898. Léon Gaumont hired director, Georges Hatot and actor, Gaston Breteau, in early 1898 to increase Gaumont’s catalogue of offerings. Hatot and Breteau economized on their productions for Gaumont by recycling the backdrops, props, and costumes they had used for the Lumière brothers in the 1897 series of films, La Vie du Christ. When Léon Gaumont discovered what they had done, he felt short-changed. Georges Hatot described his final confrontation with Leon Gaumont and Alice Guy in the fall of 1898: “I made the Passion for Gaumont. I gave him six pictures and then we broke the contract. We broke the contract because I made a cutting remark to Mademoiselle Alice. She already wanted to busy herself with anything that was disputed. It pissed me off. And in a gesture of impatience, I said to her, ‘Don't you have any socks to darn?’" “Gaumont turned red,” Hatot observed. “He said to himself, ‘He's a guy I need to get rid of’…. I never went to Gaumont again.” Léon Gaumont rescinded his contract with Georges Hatot and Gaston Breteau in the fall of 1898. By then, Alice Guy had been employed by L. Gaumont et Cie for over four years. Her busying “herself with anything that was disputed” suggests she was already defending her own position. As she said, “I had a hard time keeping my job.” Since Hatot said he only made six pictures for Gaumont and then never went back after this confrontation in the fall of 1898, it is not possible that Georges Hatot directed the 1900 La Fée aux Choux. Neither is it possible that he directed the original La Fée aux Choux in 1896 since he got his start later, in 1897. He was only 20 years old in 1896, three years younger than Alice Guy, and was doing his military service that year. More important, he never claimed that La Fée