Pathe Freres Movies

Four on-screen spectators serve as the viewer’s proxy at a running of the annual French championship steeplechase held at Paris’s Auteuil Hippodrome.

A hunter with his leg stuck in a wolf trap sends his young son for help – unfortunately the boy is easily distracted and loses track of his mission.

Chasing after a bicycle thief.

A housewife is particularly determined to get her cooking knife sharpened by a travelling grinder, terrifying her neighbors and assorted pedestrians a...

As soon as his back is turned, Columbine is making out with Harlequin. So when he catches them at it, Gaston Séverin as Pierrot strikes her as Harlequ...

2 men battle over a woman

The Allure of Paris. A 1912 romantic silent short film from Pathé.

The daring skeleton-sledding racers along the now-legendary Cresta Run at St. Moritz took their lives into their own hands as they attempted to race t...

The film depict elephants hard at work, moving logs and performing other back-breaking labor under the watchful eyes of their handlers.

Depicts the chaos at a circus following an ape’s untimely escape.

Long shots of men and women coasting (and occasionally tumbling) down the slopes in small groups, followed by a number of skiers launching themselves...

Jane has been elected the president of the Union of Cooks and Housemaids, and has just signed a resolution to improve their working conditions. Return...

A sympathetic story of a moral dilemma set at the turn of the 19th century. A Frenchman joins the Chouannerie – a Royalist uprising in opposition to t...

This dynamic actuality film documents the hunting of a boar from the first bugle call to the distribution of the spoils.

Hoping to get the medication needed to save her dying husband, an old woman tries to borrow money, only to be turned away.

This remarkable ape, extraordinarily human-like in its manners and ways, gives a splendid exhibition. When first seen Adam appears to be in a rather m...

The action in Fantasias arabes centers on a parade of men on horseback moving down a street towards the camera.

Views include the bridge of Kassir-el-Nil, the Sphinx, the Pyramids approached by train, and the Nile.

This series of tableaux-style vignettes taken from the much-storied life of France’s Louis XIV includes “Musketeers Fight”, “The Camp at Flanders”, “L...