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Artheme takes his elderly uncle for a walk in his wheelchair, but abandons the invalid in the woods overnight when he spots a pretty girl. (MoMA)
Dupin Takes his Uncle Out
Vendetta
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
An animation where real life objects turn into animations.
Les Métamorphoses Comiques
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
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
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
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
Jeanne Doré becomes the accomplice of her son Jacques who unfortunately commits a crime to help his mistress, Fanny, find money.
Jeanne Doré
"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.
The Blindness of Youth
French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.
The Pit and the Pendulum
An Émile Cohl animation short.
The Achievements of Will O' the Wisp
The lighthouse keeper has an attack while cleaning the light. He makes his unsteady way down to the living quarters and collapses. While his wife...
The Lighthouse Keeper
Arthème decides to become a film projectionist.
Arthème Opérateur
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 King drops dead, and the heir is his newborn son. Uncle Otto - with a name like that, how could they not know? - arranges to have the kid...
Le Noël de la princesse
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
A little man buys a paper and begins to read it as he walks down the street. It is so absorbing -- as the title indicates -- that he doesn't notice...
Absorbing Reading
Detective Nat Pinkerton is captured by a gang of murderous bank robbers known as The Black Riders, but he turns the tables on them in the nick of...
The Black Riders
French horror short from 1911.
The House of Fear