Pathe Freres Movies

In 1793, a police officer tries to save the ex-Queen from the guillotine.

In Le cheveu délateur, a magician discovers the real identity of another character by the movement of a single hair, that, once animated, gives life t...

A sorcerer draws signs on the sand making charming young women.

A policeman spots a dog stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and gives chase. Soon several more policemen have joined the pursuit. But the...

Apparently inspired by the antics of Harry Houdini, Slippery Jim opens in the office of a police commissioner to whom a rather cocky villain is presen...

In this one, Max is engaged to a girl -- called, as in all his shorts, 'Jane' -- and she loves her pussycat. She loves the lazy, immobile lump of fur...

Max and his young bride attempt to enjoy an Alpine honeymoon, despite the presence of her mother.

Max visits a lady doctor for a chest cold and is alternately anxious and nervous and excited, in a romantic and sexual way, depicted by his clever pan...

A magician performs tricks with a chicken and eggs.

A motherless child has a tumultuous existence, but she eventually becomes a famous international opera singer. Past and present meet when she performs...

A whale is hunted in the southern hemisphere by the crew of a sailing ship: it is harpooned twice, using a cannon, and taken back to the shore. In the...

In a bathroom, a big lady undresses. Shot of girl in bath back, perched on a stool watching her through the window over the door. The girl then change...

A frog hops around a magic fountain.

Behind the elderly husband's back, the lovers kiss and go off together. But is he unaware of their actions. No! So she swears that her husband is mad...

1904 journalistic actuality.

Paul Panzer returns home from a night out with the boys at his bachelor's club. He wanders into the wrong apartment, where, of course, a young woman r...

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...

At an island penal institution, new prisoners are brought in one-by-one, and introduced to the harsh realities of prison life. They are put in fetters...