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In "Rêves enfantins", players in the flesh are mixed with animated objects and cut-out paper actors.

A British clown invents a device which shows all people in grotesque sizes.

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

Forced to renounce the woman he loves because she is to marry another, a young sailor sets sail for a distant fishing voyage. While the wedding in...

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

A mythological scene with the most beautiful effect.

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...

An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic germ which in its growth gives birth to the...

Early short by French animation artist Émile Cohl. A woman becomes slowly visible in front of a black space. She points a wand and spells the...

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

This charming short film was shot in the Camargue, probably in the same place where Jean Durand filmed his cowboy movies. The plot is very simple. A...

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath...

In Montreux, Marie silently loves Georges, who instead loves her sister Jeanne. At his request, Marie helps unite them, then deliberately contracts...

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...

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

A man who no longer can afford his rent is forced to sell his beloved furniture. The furniture can not bear to be parted from their owner and decides...

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...