Gaston Velle Movies

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

A magician performs various tricks.

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...

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

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

A cook mistakenly throws his kitchen boy into a huge pot while preparing a stew. Distraught, he attempts to make up for his mistake. Alas, Mephisto...

A beautiful seductive fairy makes gentle winged creatures appear.

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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....

Fantastic Flowers is a compilation of short silent films produced between 1906 and 1920, displaying amazing colours that were applied to each frame...

An Italian movie about Othello.

A man hides his valuables under his mattress before going to sleep, blissfully unaware of the two burglars on his roof.

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

Beautiful girls emerge from a large beehive and perform graceful dances. The queen falls asleep and an enormous spider builds his web over her. The...

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

An old astronomer named Nigadimus 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!...

A charming example of the Pathe stencil system of colour films, also using superimposition.

This is in poor condition and the hand colouring is a little rough around the edges compared to the others, but it contains some impressive...

Short film showcasing a circus clown act.

This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of...