The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is happy to see her daughter in love with an...

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...

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

A young woman tells her parents and fiance (in flashback) about the recent sinking of the Titanic and her experiences as a passenger during the...

A husband, thinking his wife is unfaithful to her, has a confrontational scene with her, which causes her to have a heart attack and die. He sends...

The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.

Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred between his parents. He leaves the military institute...

Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.

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

The famous pianist Tenorini has moved into the neighbourhood. He plays a song (a spring waltz from "Alexander's Ragtime Band") on the piano; it is...

This film presents some of the principal episodes in the life of Christopher Columbus, including the discovery of America. Here we see the meeting...

Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in...

"Alice Guy-Blaché liked Feuillade's scripts, and one of them, Le coup de vent, was filmed by Etienne Armaud in 1905. Two years later, Alice left...

The history of the fan.

When a bully steals their ball, a kind war veteran lends the saddened children a helping hand. And a leg or two…

An early Gaumont short.

A gust of wind leads a man on a merry chase through the city, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake as he pursues his errant hat.

Being a tramp is not always a disadvantage. For example when there is a masquerade ball. Indeed wearing flea-ridden rags might just mean having...

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

Because he found a box washed up by the sea holding unknown contents, a poor and despised fisherman and his daughter are suddenly courted by...