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Jeanne Doré becomes the accomplice of her son Jacques who unfortunately commits a crime to help his mistress, Fanny, find money.
Jeanne Doré
An Émile Cohl animation short.
The Achievements of Will O' the Wisp
Arthème decides to become a film projectionist.
Arthème Opérateur
Un roman d’amour et d’aventures
An animation where real life objects turn into animations.
Les Métamorphoses Comiques
"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.
The Blindness of Youth
Les charmes de Maud
To the rhythm of a frenzied choreography, acrobatic matches come to life on a black background. Leaving their matchbox, they line the film in...
Fancy Matches
Charles Servaes as Polycarpe becomes an inspector of sort; he goes around measure the length of women's skirts in Paris to make sure they don't...
Polycarpe fait de la morale au centimètre
Arthème loves playing the clarinet. He plays it in the streets, in the park, in the streetcar (at least when he does not miss it!). When he...
Artheme Swallows His Clarinet
La mégère apprivoisée
French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.
The Pit and the Pendulum
Artheme is fascinated when he sees a conjurer do some simple tricks with a magic wand, and so he steals it, proceeding to change a horse into a...
Arthème Sorcier
The homeless Polycarpe steals a rifle from some careless society sportsmen and goes on a mindless shooting spree. (MoMA)
Polycarpe Wants to Make a Hit
The cyclist is dispatched upon an important errand, and his humorous and alarming adventures by the way form the subject of this series. Misadventure...
The Short-Sighted Cyclist
Vendetta
French horror short from 1911.
The House of Fear
The film begins with a shot of Wilbur Wright starting the engine; an unidentified assistant (quite likely his brother, Orville) is seen at the front...
Wilbur Wright and His Flying Machine
Ernest Servaes and his wife leave their apartment, hoping to have a peaceful picnic in the green suburbs. However, they miss the train. Then the...
Le pique-nique d'Arthème
Polycarpe -- that's Charles Servaes -- encounters a painter in a museum. He strikes a funny pose and the painter decides he wants to paint that...
The Tenacity of Polycarp