Movies

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

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

A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road...

The melodrama where there's a mad inventor with a pretty daughter and where the rich hero buys the worthless invention, telling the girl and her...

Two mediocre detectives try and catch a notorious pickpocket. Meanwhile, an innocent man is mistaken for the pickpocket and is forced to put on a...

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.

This 1905 Gaumont produced film attributed to Alice Guy is lost. It has no surviving plot, summary or synopsis. Only a few stills are extant.

In a most picturesque setting, the priests of ancient Gaul sacrifice to the gods the victims designated in honor of the mistletoe cutting.

A pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks.

At a large factory, the workers decide to strike. Although the leader of the workers believes his boss is treating them unfairly, the strike movement...

Butterfly dance.

"Mireille" was filmed at the end of May, 1906, by a small team including Alice Guy, Herbert Blaché, Louis Feuillade and Yvonne Mugnier-Serand...

Alice Guy film.

Early Gaumont dance film frequently attributed, but not confirmed, to Alice Guy. A young Basque man and his companion sketch various Basque dance...

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for...

Despite his younger sister's remonstrances, a precocious schoolboy wants to smoke a cigarette he stole from his father. But he is soon punished for...

Short silent film about the difficulty caused by these dresses in getting out of the car without offending the modesty of passers-by.