Georges Hatot Movies

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

A balcony courting scene turns into a man being beaten in a sack.

Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main...

Agents chase down rooftop criminals, and after a series of grotesque twists and turns, they finally get their hands on them.

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

Two bearded sages engage ina dispute before a large cauldron, from which they summon up Mephistopheles.

Clowns on bicycles: that pretty much sums up this short Pathe comedy. They dress in various costumes. The bicycles are in varying states of...

The scene depicts the well-known episode depicted in a famous painting. Two groups of soldiers follow each other into the room and open fire. A...

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

A man does a practical joke on a chestnut vendor.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...

While the old gentleman is dying his mustache and eyebrows, putting in his monocle, and donning his toupee, the little brat fits a two-gallon jar of...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

Thieves are chased by police on rooftops.