Gaston Velle Movies
- 1905

Dream of the Moon
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A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....
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Fantastic Flowers
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Fantastic Flowers is a compilation of short silent films produced between 1906 and 1920, displaying amazing colours that were applied to each frame...
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- 1903

Les poupées
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A merchant is giving a demonstration of his lifelike automatons to a bedazzled customer. Could these "larger than life" clockwork figures look too...
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- 1903

Le prestidigitateur au café
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A magician enters a café and sets about introducing his act, but a waiter interferes and throws him out the door. Disgruntled, the magician...
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- 1903

Substitutions
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A magician performs various tricks.
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- 1906

Bob's Theater
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Little Bob stages his mechanical toys in a series of charming performances.
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- 1903

The Haunted Castle
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A sorcerer conjures an old witch and instructs her to seek a maiden. Said maiden is assigned with the task to lure a young traveler inside the...
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- 1903

Pierrot et la flûte enchantée
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Pierrot woos Columbine, who abandons Harlequin. An old witch hands Harlequin a magical flute that will make his wishes come true, whenever it is...
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- 1903

Arlequin et Méphistophélès
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Harlequin is walking in a garden with Columbine. As he moves away to the distance and leaves her on her own, Mephisto appears, from inside a well,...
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- 1903

Le gendarme et les domestiques
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Two housemaids, arguing, start to fight : a houseboy steps in to separate them, and in doing so becomes their target and is literally torn apart....
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- 1906

Living Flowers
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Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their...
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- 1903

Chirurgie mécanique
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Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery.
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- 1907

The Clock-Maker's Secret
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The town-crier summons the inhabitants of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that...
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- 1906

A Voyage Around a Star
A Voyage Around a Star5.91906HD
An old astronomer has been transfixed by a star for a long time. He had but one thought: to travel to it, to declare his love for it! But how? A...
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- 1903

Tentation de Saint-Antoine
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Under cover of a disguise, Santa approaches Saint-Anthony's hut and, via various tricks, sets out to try his faith. Will good triumph over evil?
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- 1904

Drama in the Air
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A fairly venturesome piece of filmmaking for the era: Based on the Jules Verne story, the film utilizes a dozen cuts, irised lenses, panning shots...
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- 1903

Le repas fantastique
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A gentleman having lunch at a hostelry experiences all kinds of mishaps.
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- 1903

Une scène à l'octroi
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A woman, who tried to smuggle goods under her clothes, is brought to an excise duty office for further inspection.
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- 1904

Barnum's Trunk
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A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.
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- 1906

Tit-for-Tat
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An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.
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