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- A humongous and obese anthropomorphic swine dressed like a fine gentleman in a fancy dinner attire tries to make a pass at a solitary lady having a picnic.
- As the clock strikes twelve, a weary astronomer attempts to answer the impertinent enquiries of his young students by scrutinising an impending lunar eclipse, as an effeminate and delicate moon caresses the mighty sun's hungry cosmic rays.
- A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.
- Undersea adventures in a submarine by a dreaming fisherman who encounters mystical underwater creatures at odds with him. A parody on Jules Verne's novel.
- A sorcerer tosses an iridescent little beetle into a flaming ceremonial cauldron, and much to his amazement, a six-winged fairy in the body of a beautiful young woman emerges. Is his sorcery potent enough to tame her?
- King Edward VII of England and the President of the French Republic, Armand Fallières, envision tunnelling the English Channel; nevertheless, only a maiden voyage can determine whether this is a triumphant aspiration or an acrid nightmare.
- Two thieves, Robert Macaire and Bertrand, are eating at an outdoor restaurant, when they find themselves left alone. So, spying their chance, they make off with everything on the table. The waitress, discovering the theft, gives the alarm and four policemen begin following the thieves. Robert Macaire and Bertrand meanwhile rob a bank and steal several costumes to disguise themselves as tourists. They leave their clothes in a garden and embark onto a train, the police behind them. They get off at the station, and an attendant tells the police which way they when the police arrive. Entering a town, an earthquake hits and the thieves fly through the air. They land and the police are again on their trail. To hide themselves Macaire and Bertrand must disclose themselves in a barn. The police soon discover their abode and shoot the thieves down, but Robert Macaire and Bertrand get up and escape after the police turn their backs. And, jumping into a hot air balloon, they float away, making rude gestures to the officers of the law.
- On their wedding night, the newlyweds are ready to go to bed with the ceremony of taking off their clothes, the bride, and the groom wanting to see what he has not seen yet.
- Depicting well-known incidents in the life of Jesus Christ, this milestone of early cinema won world fame, huge audiences and a screen life of decades when most secular films of the time measured their commercial life in weeks.
- Satan uses of magical powers to cure his boredom while locked in a prison cell.
- A heavily pregnant woman has a series of irrepressible cravings while walking with her family.
- In a bower of giant tulips a boy and girl practice flower magic. They cause flowers and birds to open and human forms to issue therefrom, and on the black background of the wonderful garden there appear myriad flowers, in the center of each of which is a smiling feminine head. Tableaux showing pretty girl and flower effects are plentiful and the film winds up with a burst of multi-colored flame, which shoots in fiery splendor from leaves and petals.
- 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 the dog from the sausage. There are any number of ways this could go. However, since the dog gets the sausage at the very beginning, it means that we have a chase. THE RACE FOR THE SAUSAGE, then, is a race against the dog. Guess who wins?
- The scene opens with the jester being spurned by the king, who has evidently partaken of food which disagrees with him, and instead of being amused by the frolics of his jester he casts him away. All the wiles of the jester fail to raise a smile. The king petulantly throws himself into his chair of state. The jester, finding his jokes falling flat, performs acrobatic feats to no effect; juggling with balls, no result; the king won't be pleased. The jester then gathers chairs and builds them up and outward. Ah! The king is at last interested, wondering why they don't fall over, and gets down to see. The jester, taking a pair of bellows, blows the chairs and they fall in a heap at the king's feet. The jester next puts the chairs away and tickles the king, who kicks him for his frivolity; then, getting down from his chair to again kick the jester, kicks air, for the jester has vanished, quickly appearing again out of a large box and laughing at his master, who again seats himself with a frown. Finding all his efforts to please are not appreciated, the jester summons a lady to his aid. Now the king is all attention. Then taking three stools, the jester places them before the king, helps the lady to stand on the center one, pulls her dress, which falls to the ground, displaying her as a Grecian model. The king now forgets his indigestion and watches, the figure. The jester produces two staves, which he places under the outstretched hands of the model, then with a few passes hypnotizes his subject; he now takes the center stool from beneath the sleeping beauty, leaving her suspended on the two staves. After one or two more passes, he removes one of the staves, leaving the subject with only the support of the other, to the astonishment of the king, who is still more surprised when the beautiful model throws him a kiss. The jester now replaces the stool under the feet of the model, awakens her and helps her down. The king sits on the stool, takes the model in his arms and is about to kiss her, when to his intense disgust he finds himself embracing his jester, who, linking his arm in that of the king, leads him off.
- It's a play in three parts. This film is supposed to be the first long feature film released in Europe
- An obese cooks' lover succeeds in escaping the police after an incident involving her masters.
- 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.
- By 1907, sound experimenter Georges Mendel had devised a system to assure synchronization by mechanically interlocking phonograph and projector. The film was shot to playback but amplification of the acoustic recording remained a significant limitation. Here, M. Note of the Paris Opera sings "La Marseillaise" in 1908.
- This subject presents n remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very prominent part. Mystifying and highly entertaining throughout and of perfect photographic quality.
- 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.
- An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.
- Ponchinella the servant [called "Harlequin" in the English language version] rescues his girlfriend from a gang of decadent aristocrats, who have transformed her into a mechanical doll.
- Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- A motorist has a breakdown at the entrance of a town where they have never seen a car before, and they ask each other for help to see what it is that has appeared.
- A nursemaid quits her job and convinces all the other nannies in her apartment building to go out on strike. The strike spreads to the city, with nurses everywhere abandoning their charges, in the park and in the streets.
- In the Roman Empire, a rich patrician falls in love with a slave, which produces the anger and hatred of his wife against her.
- Emperor Justinian is hosting a party, and, for the entertainment of his court, he has three victims of his choice tied to stakes, which are then set on fire.
- A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes to life and comes out of the frame and imitates his every action. As soon as he rubs the fluid off the mirror his double disappears. When the servant come in, a little of the fluid is again rubbed on the mirror, and he has the same experience, his reflection stepping out and doing stunts, thereby scaring the poor fellow almost to death. The inventor of the fluid then takes the mirror with him and goes out on the street, a passing policeman looks into it, and immediately his double appears and they have a free-for-all fight. A fellow playing the hose on the street is surprised when his double faces him, also holding a hose, and for a time it is amusing to see them drenching one another. He next goes into a café, where a man seated at a table gazes into the mirror, and immediately his double appears on the opposite side of the table, and it is nip and tuck to see who can eat the most. They cause so much excitement in the place that everything is wrecked and the unfortunate fellow is unceremoniously ejected, while his double disappears. The young inventor goes home, but is followed by an angry mob, who procure a vat and give him an undesired bath, and in the midst of the excitement the young student of chemicals awakens and finds that it is only a dream.
- This cruel game, full of interest, takes place in a circular cage where the previously excited fighters are placed, after registration, weighing and cleaning of the lugs. The punters lean over the cage, follow the duel and place bets. The two roosters present observe each other, prepare for battle, then with a flash, they throw themselves at each other, aiming for the head. Then the attacks follow one another with surprising rapidity. Soon one of the adversaries weakens while the other exhausts and panics him with hasty pecks on the head and in the eyes. And it lasts ten minutes, a quarter of an hour, sometimes more. The vanquished falls stunned, blinded, bloodied while the other, glorious, sings victory.
- The legend of Ali Baba and the forty thieves: Ali Baba discovers a hidden cave where a band of thieves have stored their enormous treasure. Cassim also learns about the cave, but he is caught by the thieves and put to death. Knowing that their secret has been found out, the thieves devise a trick in an attempt to kill Ali Baba and anyone else who might know about their hiding place.
- 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 and a bicycle seat and handles are liberally daubed, so that those coming in contact experience much inconvenience in liberating themselves. "He who laughs last laughs best," can also be applied in this instance, as, in giving vent to his amusement, the lad falls back on to the pot and is unable to liberate himself.
- Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor. After encountering numerous sea creatures, he comes to a giant oyster. When the oyster is opened, a strange adventure begins for the diver.
- Two men break into a house just before the owner turns up.
- When the coachman comes home drunk, his wife beat him up and she takes the passenger car creating chaos in the city.
- 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 leave the house for a stroll. Entering the park, they walk through the lanes and avenues, the little girl running ahead and skipping the rope. Finding a vacant bench, the maid takes possession and presently dozes off. The little girl playfully runs away and accidentally comes upon the scene of a "holdup," whereupon, unobserved by the footpads, she ties her rope across the passageway through which the robbers must of necessity flee. As anticipated, the robbers, in attempting to escape, trip over the rope and become entangled. In the meantime, our young heroine runs out on the public thoroughfare and gives the alarm, to which two officers respond, whom she leads to the spot, where they capture the "hold-up" men. Our little girl runs farther on, and coming to the brink of the river, observes a blind man who is about to attempt to cross an open draw of a bridge. Through herculean efforts she manipulates the mechanism of the bridge just in the nick of time, thereby saving the life of a poor blind man. The next scene shows three intoxicated men staggering down a street, oblivious to all danger. A train of cars is about to cross the street Our heroine, noticing the deathtrap into which the intoxicated men are about to stagger, runs ahead and closes the gate, thereby impeding their progress and consequently saving them, from injury and possible death. The nurse, upon waking, discovers that her charge is gone, and scurries away in search of the little girl; not finding her, she returns home and reports to the frantic parents that their child is lost. The little girl now rambles on aimlessly, and discovering her plight, tells a passing police officer that she is lost, whereupon she is brought to the headquarters, where she gives her name and address, with which information they soon notify her parents by telephone and dispatch an officer home with her. Arriving home, she is received joyously, and the scene closes, showing the little girl comically scolding the maid for her carelessness, then followed by forgiveness and embraces.
- A lad who is about to embark as a cabin boy is seen making his preparations with the help of his old grandmother. After much kissing and embracing, he finally departs, going off with a stalwart mariner. He is taken down to the pier where a big fishing schooner waits; and on board this craft he is soon about his new duties. Fate is hard with him, however, for a big bully takes a dislike to him, with the result that whenever he meets the lad it means beating for the latter. Another seaman interferes for the boy, however, and there are several scuffles between the two men. The boy bears all patiently and even writes cheerfully to his grandma telling her that he is well and learning rapidly, hoping to be a clever sailor some day. His sailor friend sees the boy and pats the boy fondly, but the big bully orders him off roughly. It is apparent that the boy's lot is a hard one, but he doesn't grumble, taking a beating stoically and sticking close to his duties. The scene now changes and shows a view of the ship, the men working in the rigging. Suddenly a huge sea comes over her and one of the sailors is carried into the ocean. He struggles about desperately and all seem to lose their presence of mind, when in an instant, the boy seizes the situation and the next moment has leaped into the water. He reaches the drowning man, and striking out desperately heads towards shore with his burden. His strength is giving out, but he struggles on and is soon washed upon the beach, where he falls unconscious. The rescued man, however, has now recovered, and taking the lad up in his arms carries him on his shoulders up a huge cliff and into the town, finally laying him down at the door of his home. The grandmother comes out in hysterics, but the boy soon recovers and his aged grandparent embraces him fondly, thanking the big seaman sincerely, while he in turn thanks his little rescuer.
- A sorcerer draws signs on the sand making charming young women.
- A group of passengers are enjoying their ride on a trolley when a cheese-seller climbs aboard. The odor of her wares are so strong it disturbs the passengers, and when they find the source of the smell they have the cheese-seller arrested. She pleads her case; all is failing until the her cheeses show up. They stench the room with their odor, making the officers faint. The cheese-seller then leaves the police station.
- A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.
- 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 thing leads to another. If war is hell then all hell breaks loose!
- During his daily promenade, a fine gentleman in his impeccably crisp suit wearing a black and broad-brimmed top hat is yawning incessantly.