Maurice Vinot

A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.

Directed by Louis Feuillade.

A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.

Leonce works at the Gaumont studios as star actor and his wife suspects him of being unfaithful. She finds ladies' hair on his coat, fan letters in his pocket...

A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.

Judith and Holophernes

This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane old coot, he runs amok acting out his war-time heroics--smashing and throwing everything in the room!

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

An aging engineer pursues a scheme to build a flying machine at the expense of his family's health. When his daughter falls ill, he enters a flying competition to win money for her treatment, even though his design is dangerously untested.

A silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.

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

The Buoy

The Shipwreck

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

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 money isn't everything and he has to convince the father that his money is evil.