Pathe Freres Movies

A woman confessing her sins to a priest who gets more and more excited.

Silent film.

This is, for 1906, a strikingly ambitious prototype-documentary travelogue filmed in and around the cities now called Kolkata and Mumbai. It's full of...

Paula Peters, the trainer, shows a series of tricks executed by her marvelously well trained troop of horses and dogs, assisted by two or three clever...

Early silent film

Pathé comedy short

Pathé-Journal newsreel on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie on the...

A train ride with a view from the back of the train.

Jeannot sees a lithograph of a ballet dancer and decides he wants one of them and heads to the big city. Jeanette decides she can be one and likewise...

A couple of performers perform the big love number from the Oscar Strauss operetta.

In a medium long shot, we see a view of the Seine, with some logs floating. Perhaps they are rubbish. Swimmers enter from the right, get as far as the...

Flesh-eating birds are many but few persons have ever been permitted a close inspection and study of their habits and characteristics. To a great majo...

Earliy short film with mischievous kids.

Compilation film.

Clowns on bicycles: that pretty much sums up this short Pathe comedy. They dress in various costumes. The bicycles are in varying states of disrepair....

A masher approaches a lady on the street who is elegantly dressed, but when he gets near enough to see her face he changes his mind so suddenly that h...

Paris has the unique distinction of possessing women cabbies; the scheme of making them chauffeurs (or, more properly, "chauffeuses") meets with rathe...

Dancers, including a fellow dressed as a bullfighter, demonstrate some involved dances, including the flamenco, while a guitar player and lutist perfo...

A young girl and boy both in 18th century clothes and wigs bow to each other before a table covered with yellow cut flowers. The boy awards a flower t...