Societe Des Etablissements Gaumont Movies

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

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...

A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under...

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

A delightfully pleasing and beautifully hand-colored series of panoramic views, giving the history of the fan. A large ostrich feather fan opens and...

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...

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

A nightmare, sketched out upon a living blackboard.

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

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...

A film about cupid shoes by Émile Cohl.

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

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,...

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

Mozart feels compelled to finish a final requiem as he fears death is quickly approaching. Although the doctor has specifically ordered Mozart not to...

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...

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

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