Pathe Freres Movies

Some naughty scenes from a balcony.

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

Coverage of the Siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911, including film of Winston Churchill witnessing the events.

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...

When Max, a newly married man, suspects that his wife may be cheating on him, he gives his faithful dog Dick orders to keep on eye on her when he's no...

This film is not exceedingly well acted, but has the additional charm of being taken from the actual history of the man whose personality dominated th...

Stencil-coloured version of Segundo de Chomón's Les roses magiques (1906).

A delightful and typical farce film, ending with the usual Gallic chase.

This adaptation of Charles Perrault's classic novel briefly presents the story of a poor family who doesn't find means to sustain their home and end u...

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a skirt dan...

Max, who fears dogs, is chased by them through the city, over walls, and even up a chimney and onto a roof.

The romantic drama based on the play of the same name, depicting the life of a 17th-century French courtesan.

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...

Three goddesses, Venus, Juno and Minerva each of whom claims to be the most beautiful, call a shepherd "Paris" and ask him to decide the question and...

The story is simple: Max and a pretty young lady, whom he has never met before, arrive at the same time at a luxury hotel on the Riviera, each for a l...

Rigadin acquires a love powder from a gypsy but it is not consumed by his intended target.

In the early morning of 1911, Mona Lisa is found to be stolen from the Louvre museum. Museum officials look for Nick Winter help to dissolve the Myste...

Depicts a doctor looking into his patient's brain and seeing a collection of hideous and grotesque figures.

Adapted from Hugo's eponym novel, the story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a...