Movies: Societe Des Etablissements Gaumont

A nightmare, sketched out upon a living blackboard....

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 is engaged to a very jealous guard of the Camargue. Upon learning of this long-standing affair, the p...

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

A policeman has an amazing arm--one that stretches up to at least 10-12 feet. At times, he uses it to be very helpful to the local citizens, and at others he uses it to enforce the law....

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

Once Madame Ducordon discovers the joys of a new fashionable dance, she starts performing it wherever she happens to be....

A rich man, living in a splendid palace, in the city of Jerusalem, with his daughter and many servants, surrounded by every possible luxury, but blind, is healed of his affliction by Christ. Having regained his sight he does not make this known to hi...

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 his room, but instead of falling to his death, the anchor of a passing balloon intercepts his flight...

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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, riding a horse and falling face first off the horse....

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

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 1905 of the same name (Les Voleurs d'enfants), which is available to watch on YouTube....

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

Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears. Of course, the child is miserable even though he has everything in the world but after a weekend trip at his poor mother's house, the child realizes that...

At a dinner party, a hostess serves her guests a dish made using meat from a bull. While most of them enjoy the meal, one man has a strange reaction: Taking a set of horns off the wall, he attaches them to his head and sets off on a rampage. After de...

A film about cupid shoes by Émile Cohl....

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

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

Typical story where the father (a farmer) of a beautiful girl desires a wealthy man as a son-in-law and rejects her poor but honest suitor....

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