Pathe Freres Movies

Five Japanese acrobats perform their remarkable feats

Their parents beat them to make the children go out and perform on the street for pennies. When one of them goes into a house and finds a sick, starvi...

Travelogue. Scenes in and around Trouville, “the Queen of Beaches”, the fashionable seaside resort in Normandy. Views include the Casino, bathers, vil...

A house filled with spirits.

A trip to Kabilye.

Lucien Cazalis sees a young woman and falls instantly in love. He volunteers to carry her trunk to her apartment, where he kneels, grinning in front o...

Short film from 1910

Two next-door neighbors read the same article that makes them smile. They talk about it through the window. Shortly after, a peddler visits them succe...

Short comedy centered around fishing. A Pathé production that survives in the BFI collection.

Views of the waterfalls at Monasterio de Piedra, in Spain.

A grieving mother sends her two young children out to earn a living. No one seems willing to help them. The gendarmes are busy standing around a cross...

In the middle school, the pawn Paul Watrin spends his sad life, in the middle of a people of cheeky and mocking kids for whom he is the enemy, the whi...

In a playful, reflexive take on the familiar “last-minute rescue” formula, a woman and her housekeeper left alone at home miss-read shadows projected...

One New Year's Eve, a miserable tramp, after being violently snubbed by a party, follows the evil inclination of his spirit in revolt against the luck...

A cowboy's daughter is kidnapped.

John Kane, who is passionately fond of his sweet little daughter, has opened his house to a spinster cousin of his, who is alone in the world. Jane re...

An 1911 silent western.

Here is seen an old miser preparing for bed, but before retiring he counts his money and hides it under his mattress. He is just dropping off to sleep...

A very wise inventor has perfected an electric device whereby he can control the velocity of everything in sight when he turns the crank attached to t...

In this picture we see how the artists engaged to pose for the pictures make the scene so realistic that they get themselves into all kinds of trouble...