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An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...
Fantasmagorie
A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.
The Seven Deadly Sins
This charming short film was shot in the Camargue, probably in the same place where Jean Durand filmed his cowboy movies. The plot is very simple. A...
The Guardian of Camargue
To secure victory against the Ammonites, the Israeli judge Jephthah vowed to sacrifice the first person who greeted him upon his return. After...
Jephthah's Daughter
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.
André Chénier
A splendid blend of live-action photography and Cohl's famous animation, Nothing... displays the realms man has conquered: Air, sea, the domains of...
Nothing Is Impossible for Man
Having faked an automobile accident, an adventuress is taken into the home of a "ganadero" (a landowner of the Camargue), whom she seduces. Her...
L’Aventurière
Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath...
Crowns, II: The Crown of Thorns
Esther
The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book.
Modern Education
A cut-out animation depicting the Twelve Labours of Hercules.
The Twelve Labors of Hercules
The opening scene is in a tailor's shop, showing the four assistants more or less in love with their employer's daughter. After some time, the tailor...
The Four Little Tailors
In a hospital ward, a patient—under the influence of chloroform—is left to a surgeon, who removes one of his arms and one of his legs,...
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
Women turn into roses in this hand-coloured nitrate short from Gaumont.
The Roses
Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of...
Spanish Clair de Lune
A British clown invents a device which shows all people in grotesque sizes.
The Smile-O-Scope
A mixture of stop-motion and live action film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals in blackface.
The Little Soldier Who Became a God
A traveler is welcomed into a fully automated hotel, where no human intervention is required. But the machines malfunction, giving the guest a...
The Hotel of Silence
The film presents a drawing room meeting of enthusiastic puzzle workers. One gentleman has a new way of solving his puzzle. He puts a handkerchief...
The Master of a Fashionable Game
The Madonna gives a golden lily to the poor musician. He tries to sell it and this arouses the suspicion of the goldsmith.
Le Lys d'or