Societe Des Etablissements Gaumont Movies

A talented painter spends his vacation in Arles, where he paints a portrait of a beautiful Arlesian woman with whom he falls in love. The young girl...

The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book.

And here is an early success as he puts the viewer in the mood of a little boy, playing with his toys, running them through the paces of his little...

A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under...

A nightmare, sketched out upon a living blackboard.

This subject portrays in a vivid manner the operations of a puppet in his efforts to see the sights.

Stop-motion film from Émile Cohl has a clown walk out in front of a group of people and do various tricks including standing on his head,...

Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of...

A film about cupid shoes by Émile Cohl.

This subject presents a remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very...

A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.

Several unique specimens of highly ornamented porcelain are shown in series. In each case the various pieces of ware are in reality formed of living...

A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to their most burning questions.

A film from Émile Cohl showing the various hats women used over the years.

A delightfully pleasing and beautifully hand-colored series of panoramic views, giving the history of the fan. A large ostrich feather fan opens and...

An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic germ which in its growth gives birth to the...

Women turn into roses in this hand-coloured nitrate short from Gaumont.

Burlesque: the champion describes his race with such conviction that everyone is carried away with him.

A silent short film attributed to Louis Feuillade. This film from 1909 by Gaumont is currently lost. Do not confuse it with Pathé's film from...