Gaston Velle Movies

A woman, in her bedroom, is putting her jewelry away. Alarmed by strange noises at her door, she hides behind her bed. A burglar enters the room and...

This Gaston Velle movie from 1904 was a fairly venturesome piece of film-making for the era. First, its credits include Jules Verne: his second after...

The stages that a caterpillar goes through, from larvae to chrysalis, to become a butterfly.

An Italian movie about Othello.

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....

Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery.

A gentleman having lunch at a hostelry experiences all kinds of mishaps.

A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.

A devil puts a woman into a boiling cauldron in a fiery cave.

The first cinematographic adaptation of the infamous Count Cagliostro.

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,...

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.

This has more of a clear narrative than most of the films in the set although it’s still quite odd and random compared to today’s films....

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

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?

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...

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

A woman, who tried to smuggle goods under her clothes, is brought to an excise duty office for further inspection.

An evil magician visits the rajah's palace to perform his magic tricks, but he also steals a valuable casket making his getaway aboard a dragon. The...

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.