Movies: Ferdinand Zecca

Old gentleman stretches himself on the long seat of a French railway car, after placing numerous bundles in the rack above him, and also in the rack over the seat in the opposite side of the compartment. Train stops at next station and lady enters wi...

Pathe begat the Son of Man. The actual title (minus an accent) is La Vie et la Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ. It is an April 1914 remake of Pathe's 1902-05 version of the same name, and was shot primarily in the studio rather than on locatio...

The story of the life and passion of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of his birth to his ascension into heaven....

A group of men with a broken down auto get an assist from a man who can’t walk....

A man flies his plane "Fend l'Air" over Paris....

An adaptation of the biblical story....

The French short film recreates key moments from the Russian revolution of 1905 in Odessa....

Jesus appears, the doctors and sages who were engaged in a discussion listen to him amazed by his words of wisdom....

In Paris, freed by criminal hands, several barrels roll down an endless slope, dragging everything and everyone in their path....

A man with some sense of intestinal urgency needs to find the right door at a railroad station. He chooses... the wrong door....

A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution....

A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him....

Reproduction of the terrible catastrophe which annihilated the town of St. Peter on May 8, 1902....

The Clever Baker, shows a not so clever baker baking....

Pathé film number 380, also known as "What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor" (US) and "Peeping Tom" (UK). It should not be confused with its remake from 1905 also titled What is Seen Through a Keyhole, a film now considered lost. As a janitor is ...

An opium smoker intoxicated by this poison, falls asleep and dreams that he is in prison....

Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are E...

Max causes havoc when he joins other skaters on a frozen lake....

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon....

On the theater stage, a magician makes appear and disappear his partners...