Societe Generale Des Cinematographes Eclipse Movies

The cyclist is dispatched upon an important errand, and his humorous and alarming adventures by the way form the subject of this series. Misadventure...

Arthème loves playing the clarinet. He plays it in the streets, in the park, in the streetcar (at least when he does not miss it!). When he...

An animation where real life objects turn into animations.

Polycarpe gets himself a suit with a big neck.

When Pierre Dormain and his wife die in a train disaster, the custody of their children Simon and Dédée is transferred to their uncle...

An Émile Cohl animation short.

"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.

The King drops dead, and the heir is his newborn son. Uncle Otto - with a name like that, how could they not know? - arranges to have the kid...

Artheme takes his elderly uncle for a walk in his wheelchair, but abandons the invalid in the woods overnight when he spots a pretty girl. (MoMA)

To the rhythm of a frenzied choreography, acrobatic matches come to life on a black background. Leaving their matchbox, they line the film in...

The film begins with a shot of Wilbur Wright starting the engine; an unidentified assistant (quite likely his brother, Orville) is seen at the front...

The sugarcane industry in Argentina: the factory, the train, the workers' houses, the Indigenous workers.

Jeanne Doré becomes the accomplice of her son Jacques who unfortunately commits a crime to help his mistress, Fanny, find money.

The lighthouse keeper has an attack while cleaning the light. He makes his unsteady way down to the living quarters and collapses. While his wife...

Artheme is fascinated when he sees a conjurer do some simple tricks with a magic wand, and so he steals it, proceeding to change a horse into a...

Accident-prone Polycarpe wreaks havoc on a construction site—a popular location for so many early film comedies.

A dog causes a man to get chased.