Pathe Freres Movies

A child and her nurse are out walking. A band of desperate men and women knock the nurse down and abduct the child. Soon a ransom note is sent to the...

This maid breaks the dishes, so it's off to the employment office. The next one tries on her mistress's clothes and gets kissed by the master, so it's...

Picking at random, we see the angry mob of peasants attacking the witch's home with pitchforks and fire; the use of chapter heading titles (at least f...

About a woman thrown out after she has a child out of wedlock, with the usual "go and darken my doorstep no more!" gesture.

When his wife gives to the ragman a pair of tan trousers in which all his money is kept, a man proceeds to rip the trousers off everyone he meets.

A couple of young boys clamber over a fence and break into the hen coop. They steal some eggs and a fat chicken. The adults are after them, but the bo...

A gang of child thieves take one away and hand him over to other gypsies who dress him in rags and cruelly mistreat him. The boy wants to escape and t...

The apprentice at a pastry shop is more interested in playing tricks on people than sweeping the pavement in front of the shop; more interested in eat...

It's Christmas time, so it's obligatory to give a gift to everyone, even the guy who's paid to do a job, and often paid very well. It's a yearly routi...

A magician conjures up a fine meal for a poor man, and clothes him magnificently.... but what does he get out of it?

During a raid, a police officer is shot, and a woman is mistakenly arrested for the crime. Despite the pleas of her mother, she is sentenced to Siberi...

A Poacher om the loose.

A peasant goes to Paris to sell a couple of rabbits and everything he finds in the city surprises and amazes him, which causes fun to the Parisians. B...

A poacher eludes a gendarme with the help of some trick photography.

A man rides a bike into the water and two officers tries to help him.

A magician dressed as Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of people and objects in this short film.

A couple of clowns try to ride a pennyfarthing around a stage, while fighting.

It looks like peasants dancing in their holiday finery, the women wearing long skirts, the men britches and flowered hats. They set into pairs and wal...

Men walk through the street with their flower-decorated bicycles in this early Pathe actuality.

Some boys are seated at a table outdoors for a meal when a fight breaks out.