Gaston Velle Movies

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

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

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

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

A couple perform a acrobatic dance.

A Japanese-set magic show. There is a lot of visual trickery on display, ending with an amazing effect using reverse footage and...

Silent movie from 1904

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...

A boy is put to bed by his mother, but when she leaves the room, he pulls out a book. Dropping off to sleep, he begins to dream. The wall behind him...

A gentleman returns to his home office to find that the porter is smoking his cigars and has the housemaid on his knee.

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 trick film by Gaston Velle

A magician performs various tricks.

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....

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...