Gaumont Movies

Early short film by Emile Cohl

The countess Hélène de Rochegrune awaits the return of her fiancé who went to the front.

After raising her daughter, one would think that Julie's life was rather full. However, she recently got an offer from the French consul to a mission...

The men of a fishing village rescue a young men from a burning ship. He is the sole survivor. Having lost his memory, he stays in the village, and he...

The kids of a game-keeper get into a chase with rifles.

In 1925 what may have been the first cycling film was made, Le Roi de la Pédale starring the popular comedy actor Biscot, and with scenes shot on the...

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of...

Polin performs a song.

The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice...

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

A film by Louis Feuillade.

A mischievous child feeds his father a laxative, leading to disruptive bouts of intestinal disorder—and an unexpected reward. (MoMA)

The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by Gian...

Romance on the train with a bitter old governess stands in the way.

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

A husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the deed from happening a third ti...

An aging engineer pursues a scheme to build a flying machine at the expense of his family's health. When his daughter falls ill, he enters a flying co...

Alice Guy films the sea.