Gaumont: Le cinema premier - Volume 1 (1897-1913)
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1. Le pêcheur dans le torrent (1897)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
It could be said that the essence of comedy is the misfortune of others. Among other things, of course. In THE FISHERMAN AT THE STREAM, our fisherman is set upon by a band of swimmers (for ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 317
2. Baignade dans le torrent (1897)
1 min | Short
Some boys and a dog play in a stream.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 321
3. Danse serpentine par Mme. Bob Walter (1899)
2 min | Short, Music
Loie Fuller performs the serpentine dance.
Director: Alice Guy | Star: Loie Fuller
Votes: 280
4. L'aveugle fin de siècle (1898)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
A cadger, pretending to be blind, turns round little finger constabulary, putting instead of itself nothing unsuspecting inhabitant.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 260
5. Chez le magnétiseur (1897)
1 min | Comedy, Short
The Magnetizer uses his powers to change the costumes of the three other players.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 342
6. Les cambrioleurs (1897)
Not Rated | 1 min | Comedy, Short
Alice Guy's brief THE BURGLARS takes a classic cops-and-robbers set-up and places it upon the roofs of Paris circa late-1800s (albeit a Méliès-like set that approximates the city skyline). ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 280
7. Scène d'escamotage (1898)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
DISAPPEARING ACT represents, as you might suspect, a magic act. Not any ordinary act, however. More of a "metamorphosis" in the hands of director Alice Guy. In the parlance of the era, the ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 264
8. Surprise d'une maison au petit jour (1898)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, War
As the title of this Alice Guy war-themed short describes, there is a surprise attack on (or near) a house. The time of day is impossible to verify. Daybreak, evidently. With no particular ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 238
9. Au cabaret (1899)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
Everyone knows that mixing gambling and liquor can produce unexpected and occasionally dangerous results. As true today as it was back in the late-1800s (when this dramatic short subject was made).
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 255
10. La bonne absinthe (1899)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
A customer places an order at a cafe. While reading his newspaper he doesn't pay attention to the bottles brought by the waiter.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 303
11. Avenue de l'opéra (1900)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
You aren't imaging things. This short, filmed on the aforementioned Avenue de l'Opera in Paris, is backward as intended. As a bit of excessive cleverness, the music (a recent addition) is ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 286
12. Chapellerie et charcuterie mécanique (1900)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
Filmmaker Alice Guy creates something of an oddity with this one-minute comedy. An inventor and his assistant create a machine that, true to its title, makes hats and grinds sausages! The ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy | Star: Henri Vallouy
Votes: 267
13. Chez le photographe (1900)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
A man turns up to have his photograph taken. He and the photographer have different views concerning the composition of the photo.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 253
14. Danse des saisons (1900)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
Presumably, this is one in a series of four short dance performances devoted to the seasons. WINTER, SNOW DANCE appears to be the only one of these films to survive (although it isn't clear... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 224
15. La concierge (1900)
1 min | Short, Comedy
Children play tricks on the landlady, but a potential renter gets doused with the bucket of water.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 216
16. Chirurgie fin de siècle (1900)
2 min | Comedy, Short
Surgery is performed at the turn of the century.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 293
17. Le départ d'Arlequin et de Pierrette (1900)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short
Preserved by Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, PIERRETTE'S ESCAPADES retains the original hand-tinting from the film's release in 1900. Director Alice Guy adapts a brief sequence from the ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 302
18. Au bal de Flore (1900)
3 min | Short
Hand-tinted film of a couple dance on a stage.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 195
19. La fée aux choux, ou la naissance des enfants (1900)
1 min | Short
#sinopsis A fairy appears on the screen in the middle of a garden, giving birth to a baby of a cabbage.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 274
20. Miss Lina Esbrard, danseuse cosmopolitaine et serpentine (1902)
2 min | Short
Lina Esbrard performs the serpentine dance.
Director: Alice Guy | Star: Line Eshrard
Votes: 74
21. Sage-femme de première classe (1902)
4 min | Short, Comedy
A young couple go shopping for a baby.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Alice Guy, Germaine Serand, Yvonne Serand
Votes: 275
22. Intervention malencontreuse (1902)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
Married couples can never quite seem to get along. Not even for a minute! In this one-minute Alice Guy short, they're not content with fighting alone. They'll fight with anyone.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 174
23. Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (1902)
Not Rated | 3 min | Documentary, Short
A woman performs a music hall act with her extremely well-trained dogs.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 375
24. Comment monsieur prend son bain (1903)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
An uncharacteristic "trick" film from Alice Guy. The fellow prepares for his bath. And prepares. And prepares.
Director: Alice Guy | Star: Ferdinand Zecca
Votes: 256
25. Faust et Méphistophélès (1903)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy (later known as Alice Guy-Blaché).
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 303
26. Les maçons (1905)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short
In this early comedy short, the O'Mers appear as bricklayers. All havoc breaks loose, accordingly.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 152
28. La charité du prestidigitateur (1905)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Alms for the poor! A vagabond magician teaches a moral lesson in this Alice Guy short from 1905. When charity comes your way, pass it along.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 189
29. Clown, chien et ballon (1905)
1 min | Short
A clown and his dog bounce a balloon in the air, making sure that it never touches the ground.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 157
30. Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly (1905)
2 min | Short
A rooster sits on its perch, crows, and flaps its wings.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 159
34. La malagueña et le torero (1905)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short
In this brief, hand-tinted short featuring the titular Malagueña (a woman from Málaga) and a bullfighter, the couple perform a little dance for your viewing pleasure.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 138
35. Saharet, boléro (1907)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short
French filmmaker Alice Guy documents a short dance performance in this hand-tinted short.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Madame Saharet, Don Moreno
Votes: 137
36. Alice Guy tourne une phonoscène sur la théâtre de pose des Buttes-Chaumont (1907)
2 min | Documentary, Short
A behind the scenes look at Alice Guy Blanche directing one of her films.
Stars: Étienne Arnaud, Alice Guy
Votes: 218
37. Polin, l'anatomie du conscrit (1905)
2 min | Short, Music
Polin preforms "Anatomy of a Draftee".
Director: Alice Guy | Star: Polin
Votes: 150
38. Dranem Performs 'The True Jiu-Jitsu' (1905)
2 min | Short, Music
Dranem performs "The True Jiu Jitsu".
Director: Alice Guy | Star: Dranem
Votes: 180
39. Five O'Clock Tea (I) (1905)
3 min | Short, Music
Dranem performs "Five O'Clock Tea".
Director: Alice Guy | Star: Dranem
Votes: 171
40. Questions indiscrètes (1906)
2 min | Short, Music
Felix Mayol performs in color.
Director: Alice Guy | Star: Félix Mayol
Votes: 194
41. La polka des trottins (1905)
2 min | Short, Music
Félix Mayol sings in front of a stage curtain draped in the antique style and decorated with lily of the valley, the singer's favorite flower.
Director: Alice Guy | Star: Félix Mayol
Votes: 155
43. The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Biography, Drama
The life of Jesus Christ in 25 scenes.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 589
44. Une course d'obstacle (1906)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Comedy
When there is a prize involved, folks will do just about anything. Run an obstacle course? Of course! Madness ensues.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 141
45. Madame's Cravings (1907)
4 min | Comedy, Short
A heavily pregnant woman has a series of irrepressible cravings while walking with her family.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 517
46. A Sticky Woman (1906)
2 min | Short, Comedy
An upper class lady goes to the post office and takes her maid with her to help with the stamp affixing.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 380
47. La hiérarchie dans l'amour (1906)
2 min | Short, Comedy
A soldier meets a girl on a stroll and offers to carry her basket. But when they encounter his superior officer, his superior takes over and escorts the girl, until he, in turn, runs into a higher ranking officer. And on so it goes.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 155
48. The Stepmother (1906)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Drama
Alice Guy (later known as Alice Guy-Blaché) tackles the subject of bad parenting in this dramatic, tear-jerking short.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 163
49. Une histoire roulante (1906)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Comedy
An unfortunate man has quite the tumble in a barrel.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 306
50. The Drunken Mattress (1906)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy
Comedy is benefited by originality. In this Alice Guy short, an alcoholic is inadvertently sewn in to a mattress. With that unique premise, havoc ensues.
Directors: Romeo Bosetti, Alice Guy | Star: Romeo Bosetti
Votes: 258
51. Le Noël de Monsieur le curé (1906)
5 min | Short, Drama
A parish priest and his parishioners can't afford the a baby Jesus for their Nativity Scene, so they pray for one and angels and the Virgin Mary appear to answers their prayers.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 146
52. La vérité sur l'homme-singe (1906)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Comedy
Perhaps you're familiar with lycanthropy? More commonly known as a "werewolf" (a man that becomes a wolf), lycanthropes are a type of therianthrope. In this silent short from the early ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 138
53. The Consequences of Feminism (1906)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Comedy
In a society in which gender roles are switched, will men tolerate being unequal?
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 993
54. Effets de mer (1906)
2 min | Short
Alice Guy films the sea and the ocean in the beginning of cinema.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 137
55. Le fils du garde-chasse (1906)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Drama
A young boy tries to stop a few bad men from doing bad things in Alice Guy's silent short from 1906.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 131
56. Course à la saucisse (1907)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy
For any good comedy, you generally need at least two things to set the story in motion. In this case, you have a dog and you have a sausage. The dog wants the sausage. Others want to keep ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 310
57. Le billet de banque (1906)
11 min | Short, Comedy
Two men attempt to mug a couple but a tramp intervenes.
Directors: Louis Feuillade, Alice Guy
Votes: 67
58. The Glue (1907)
3 min | Short, Comedy
This is the story of a pot of glue and the over interfering boy. Finding a pot of glue, the lad immediately proceeds to apply it to everything in sight. Accordingly, the stairway, lawn seat... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 301
59. Le bonnet à poil (1907)
5 min | Short, Comedy
A comedy about social convention. A maid allows a soldier into the kitchen triggering, if discovered, potentially embarrassing liaisons.
Director: Louis Feuillade
Votes: 121
60. Le frotteur (1907)
3 min | Short, Comedy
An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.
Directors: Louis Feuillade, Alice Guy
Votes: 167
61. A Four-Year-Old Heroine (1907)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Drama
The library of a modern home is shown, husband, wife and child each occupied in their particular diversions. The maid is called in, who dresses the child in street garments, and the two ... See full summary »
Directors: Louis Feuillade, Alice Guy
Votes: 222
62. The Rolling Bed (1907)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy
A poor chap is evicted for late rent, taking with him his only possession: his rolling bed. When he stops for a nap, a crowd gathers, leading police to investigate. It all goes downhill from there.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 164
63. The Irresistible Piano (1907)
4 min | Short, Comedy
A man starts playing a piano. Neighbors hearing the music begin dancing, and are drawn to the music, dropping what they are doing to join the impromptu dance party.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 219
64. Le ballon dirigeable 'Le patrie' (1906)
1 min | Documentary, Short
Short documentary of the dirigible coming out of the hangar and flying.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 148
65. L'enfant de la barricade (1907)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Drama
A tumultuous time in French history affects the life of one particular man, an innocent bystander swept up in the confusion around him.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 345
66. Le jardin oublié: La vie et l'oeuvre d'Alice Guy-Blaché (1996)
53 min | Documentary, Biography
The story of forgotten silent filmmaker Alice Guy and her more than 700 films.
Director: Marquise Lepage | Stars: Alice Guy, Roberta Blaché, Adrienne Blaché-Channing, André Gaudreault
Votes: 101
67. Le récit du colonel (1907)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy
Legendary French director Louis Feuillade does what he does best in THE COLONEL'S ACCOUNT. What begins as the simple telling of a story erupts into chaos as the tale becomes reality. One ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Alice Tissot, Maurice Vinot, Renée Carl
Votes: 203
68. Une dame vraiment bien (1908)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy
A beautiful young woman walking home from visiting the shops. Causes more than enough problems for every man she passes, who stop to admire her beauty.
Directors: Romeo Bosetti, Louis Feuillade | Star: Renée Carl
Votes: 371
69. Jimmie Pulls the Trigger (1912)
8 min | Short, Comedy
Jimmie is crazy to own a rifle and pesters his uncle to give him one for his birthday. Uncle indulges his little nephew and buys him a regular rifle of his heart's desire, and Jimmie ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Renée Carl, René Dary, Paul Manson, Jeanne Saint-Bonnet
Votes: 57
70. Tiny Tim and the Adventures of His Elephant (1913)
9 min | Comedy, Short, Family
Bout de Zan is a very precocious young man! When the circus comes to town, he does what any kid might do in this situation--he steals the circus' elephant!!! Later, he sits on the curb with... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Poyen, Jeanne Saint-Bonnet, Renée Carl, Juliette Malherbe
Votes: 207
71. Erreur tragique (1913)
Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Drama
An aristocrat is taken murderous jealousy after seeing his young wife by chance in a movie with another man.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Navarre, Suzanne Grandais, Ernest Bourbon, Paul Manson
Votes: 178
72. Le coeur et l'argent (1912)
18 min | Drama, Short
The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man. Raymond, the young woman's fiancé, is devastated. After a few ... See full summary »
Directors: Louis Feuillade, Léonce Perret | Stars: Suzanne Grandais, Renée Carl, Raymond Lyon, Paul Manson
Votes: 169
73. Le printemps - Épisode 2: Sur les étangs - L'amour chef d'orchestre (1909)
1 min | Short, Fantasy
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Alice Tissot, Christiane Mandelys, Henri Duval, Maurice Vinot
Votes: 93
74. Le printemps - Épisode 3: La becquée - Dans les vergers (1909)
2 min | Short, Fantasy
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Alice Tissot, Christiane Mandelys, Henri Duval, Maurice Vinot
Votes: 92
75. Le printemps - Épisode 4: Les jeux et les ris - Floréal (1909)
2 min | Short, Fantasy
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Alice Tissot, Christiane Mandelys, Henri Duval, Maurice Vinot
Votes: 91
76. La fée des grèves (1909)
7 min | Short, Fantasy
A prince captures a sea fairy. He falls in love with her and wants to marry her. The fairy wants to return to the sea. The prince allows her to return and then decides to follow her. They live happily ever after.
Director: Louis Feuillade
Votes: 171
77. La nativité (1910)
Not Rated | 14 min | Drama, Short
Silent tableaux depicting the birth of Christ in a barn and King Herod's attempt to have him killed, following the story in the Gospel.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Renée Carl, Nadette Darson, Alice Tissot, Maurice Vinot
Votes: 125
78. Heliogabalus, Tyrant of Rome (1911)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Drama
The dissolute Emperor Heliogabalus dresses as a woman, and looses lions among his guests.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Louise Lagrange, Luitz-Morat, Léonce Perret
Votes: 340
79. L'agonie de Byzance (1913)
30 min | Short, Drama, History
Retracing the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Luitz-Morat, Georges Melchior, Albert Reusy, Edmund Breon
Votes: 176
80. La Possession de l'enfant (1909)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short
In the lobby of a court house, we see a family leaving the court room right after the judge has awarded custody of the child to the father. The mother is heartbroken and begs for the child,... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Renée Carl, Christiane Mandelys, Maurice Vinot
Votes: 157
81. Le trust, ou les batailles de l'argent (1911)
Not Rated | 25 min | Drama, Short
A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Renée Carl, René Navarre, Paul Manson, Jean Devalde
Votes: 139
82. La tare (1911)
Not Rated | 41 min | Short, Drama
THE DEFECT is considerably longer than Feuillade's shorter works and significantly shorter that his better-known achievements, but quite enjoyable nonetheless. The director's efforts at ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Renée Carl, Henri Collen, Max Dhartigny
Votes: 138
83. Le nain (1912)
14 min | Drama, Short
A manuscript is mysteriously delivered to a playhouse where it is eventually turned into a major hit with critics calling it a masterpiece. The only problem is that no one knows who wrote ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Delphin, Renée Carl, Suzanne Grandais, Marthe Vinot
Votes: 147
84. La hantise (1912)
23 min | Short
A wife obsesses over the fact that a fortune teller revealed husband's voyage to America is doomed, he is booked to sail on the Titanic.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Renée Carl, René Navarre, Miss Édith, Henri Jullien
Votes: 134
85. The Life of Moliere (1910)
20 min | Short, Biography, Drama
We first see Moliere at work in his father's shop, when a boy. All the employees are busy at their appointed tasks, except the youthful playwright, who snatches time to re-read one of his ... See full summary »
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: André Bacqué, Abel Gance, René d'Auchy, Amélie de Pouzols
Votes: 83
86. Le chrysanthème rouge (1912)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A woman tells her two competing suitors she will marry the one who brings her her favourite flowers. When she reveals that these are red chrysanthemums, one of the competitors resorts to desperate measures.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Suzanne Grandais, Léonce Perret, Émile Keppens
Votes: 73
87. L'automne du coeur (1911)
12 min | Short
An aging violinist is secretly in love with his young student. Will music be enough of a comfort to him now she is getting married?
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Yvette Andréyor, Léonce Perret, Marie Dorly
Votes: 71
88. The Matrimonial Express (1912)
13 min | Short, Comedy
A man on his way to marry the daughter of a friend of his uncle instead falls for a woman he meets on the train, despite the efforts of her censorious mother.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Valentine Petit, Léonce Perret, Marie Dorly, Émile Keppens
Votes: 54
89. Sur la voie (1913)
14 min | Short, Drama
Love rivalry between railway workers almost leads to tragedy.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Eugène Bréon, Émile Keppens, Valentine Petit
Votes: 46
90. Les dents de fer (1913)
13 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
A doctor on his way to save a seriously ill child gets caught in a gin trap, and amputates part of his own hand to complete his mission.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Marie Dorly, Valentine Petit
Votes: 65
91. The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador (1912)
Not Rated | 45 min | Crime, Drama
Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Suzanne Grandais, Émile Keppens, Léonce Perret, Max Dhartigny
Votes: 425
92. The Curse of Greed (1914)
96 min | Adventure, Drama
A moneylender kidnaps the young son of an rich widow as part of a plot to cheat her of her fortune. The boy is sent away on a fishing boat with the intention of drowning him, but a kindly old fisherman intervenes.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Adrien Petit, Maurice Luguet, Louis Leubas, Armand Dutertre
Votes: 94
93. L'enfant de Paris (1913)
Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama
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 with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Léonce Perret, Louis Leubas, Maurice Lagrenée, Émile Keppens
Votes: 451
94. Léonce cinématographiste (1913)
17 min | Short, Comedy
Léonce is busy making a film when his wife Poupette becomes jealous after reading his fan mail. But it turns out her jealousy is misplaced.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Léonce Perret, Suzanne Le Bret, Maurice Vinot, Ernest Bourbon
Votes: 39
95. Léonce aime les morilles (1913)
13 min | Short, Comedy
Beaten to a tasty portion of wild morel mushrooms by a determined Englishman, Léonce and Poupette sneakily substitute the mushrooms for cut-up pieces of sponge, with surprising results.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Léonce Perret, Suzanne Le Bret, Alice Tissot
Votes: 39
96. Oscar et Kiki la midinette (1913)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Oscar drags up to help his beloved Kiki by delivering hats for the shop where she works.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Léon Lorin, Mademoiselle Davrières, Marie Dorly
Votes: 32
97. Oscar au bain (1913)
12 min | Short, Comedy
Oscar courts a new girlfriend on a taxi ride around Paris, and ends up taking an unexpected bath.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Léon Lorin, Marie Dorly, Angèle Lérida
Votes: 30
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