Pathe Freres Movies

This is in poor condition and the hand colouring is a little rough around the edges compared to the others, but it contains some impressive ‘appearing...

A story of a woman and her two suitors.

A Fallen Spirit (L'Epee du spirite, 1910) by pioneer filmmaker Segundo de Chomón is a fantasy swashbuckler that opens with the arrival at an inn of a...

Jean Valjean, guilty of a minor theft of food, is pursued and hounded for years by a relentless lawman, Javert.

A magical woman and her magical eggs.

Herr Pierre Van Groot owns two barges. Van Groot, his wife, and his sister-in-law navigate along the north channels between Belgium and France. Herr P...

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.

A hobo takes revenge to a miller who didn't give him something to eat.

In a bower of giant tulips a boy and girl practice flower magic. They cause flowers and birds to open and human forms to issue therefrom, and on the b...

Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some t...

Historical legend composed of five Scenes. 1. William Tell's heroism. 2. The Plot. 3. The Apple. 4. Death of Gessler. 5. The Swiss cheer their Liberat...

A housewife tires of her husband's annoying behavior and returns to her mother. At first, the husband is quite pleased to have the house all to himsel...

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

An inept marching band heads off to the competition, and then celebrates their surprising victory.

This has more of a clear narrative than most of the films in the set although it’s still quite odd and random compared to today’s films. There are som...

A young woman passing through a cemetery at night is suddenly startled by a voice coming from one of the graves. She wishes to rush away, but the ghos...

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth. Wh...

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes t...