Movies: Societe Des Etablissements Gaumont

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

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

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....

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...

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...

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

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

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

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....

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

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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....

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

An old woman and her jealous dog....

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....

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

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 people. After a short time has been allowed for admiration of each article, it disintegrates into the...

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...