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- 1911 adaption of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" in which three men around the Notre Dame Cathedral are romantically interested in Esmeralda, a Romani girl: Commander Phöebus, Quasimodo the bell ringer and archdeacon Claude Frollo.
- After an evening of excessive wining and dining Baron Munchausen must be helped to bed by his servants. Once asleep, he has bizarre and frightening dreams.
- 1. The Duchess of Montpensier meets the fanatical young monk, Jacques Clement. 2. She receives a message telling of the murder of her brother. 3. Henry of Navarre overhears the duchess incite Clement to kill Henry III. 4. Henry III is depressed because of the plot against him. 5. The Duchess of Montpensier threatens Henry III with vengeance. 6. The king prepares against an attack. 7. Henry of Navarre advises the king to flee. 8. Partisans of the duchess storm the castle. 9. Clement receives the message, "It is time to act." 10. Henry III designates Henry of Navarre as his successor.
- A sensational detective story, founded on the romance of Leon Sazie. The noted criminal who terrorized all Europe is shown in these three Zigomar reels in a dramatic and intense struggle for supremacy with Paulin Broquet, the celebrated detective, who takes the two in the most varied and finest resorts. It is literally a chase through the entire continent, with Broquet now having the upper hand and again Zigomar in its possession. Zigomar is the leader of a band of men who persist in plundering rich and poor. They know Broquet is on their trail and set a trap for him. However, he escapes, and in the melee which follows, when he nearly captures Zigomar, the latter also flees. A wonderful feature of this production is the "Will o' the Wisp" dance which the noted dancer, Esmée, performs at a ball in the Moulin Rouge in Paris. The festival begins by a magnificent procession, in which the dancer is carried in a litter, bedecked with jewels. In the succeeding darkness, tiny flames light up and Esmée appears clad in white veils. She appears in the semi-darkness as a white apparition. Then the dance becomes gayer, the dancer turns faster, like a flower with changing colors, and finally sinks exhausted to the floor. There are effects of colored light in this picture that never have been seen before. Immediately following there is a scene of great contrast when Zigomar sets fire to the place and the scene ends in wild disorder.
- Max needs a tonic after an illness, and the doctor prescribes a Bordeaux glass of wine three times a day. One proves to be enough, as Max drinks a quart glass of wine and proceeds to get into trouble.
- A young English lord, who has been excavating in Egypt, finds a mummy of a beautiful Egyptian princess, more than 5,000 years old. So well has the Egyptian embalmer done his work that the face is perfect in all its beauty, and the susceptible young man falls deeply in love with this belle of old Egypt, takes the mummy home to his estate in England and there it occupies his whole mind, to the exclusion of all else. Even the proposed visit of a beautiful American girl does not arouse his interest. In his sleeping moments he dreams that his mummy is alive and that he also is a subject of the Pharaohs. The mummy so works on his mind that he is losing his reason, but it is ultimately saved by the appearance of the American girl, who so resembles the mummy that she seems to be its reincarnation.
- Max is a stage struck youth, and because of a deep-seated desire to go on the stage, refuses to consent to a marriage his father has planned for him. The girl, whom Max has never met, is also stage struck, and entertains no wish of marrying him, though her mother is anxious to see her make the alliance. The parents finally manage to bring the young people together, and they, in turn, exert all their skill in an attempt to disgust each other. An accidental meeting between the two when they are off guard causes them to change their minds, and, as a climax of the scene, we see them gently clasped in each other's arms. The scene following, and the last one, is subtitled, Six Months Later. The girl appears with a baby in her arms in a filthy tenement house. Max enters as a broken-down sport, and demands money from her. She refuses to part with her last cent, and, in the quarrel and struggle that follows, he kills her, and then - the curtain falls and the spectator discovers that he has been witnessing Max and his wife in a drama within a drama. They have fulfilled their stage ambitions, besides satisfying their parents.
- Another fine travelogue which carries the spectator through the quaint streets of this town on the edge of the earth. The people present a novel and interesting appearance in their daily labors, amusements and recreations. Few can see this picture and not come away with greater knowledge of the world and its inhabitants than they did before.
- The story of Verdi's well-known opera is generally known. Briefly the old Count Di Luna gives his two young sons a locket. Manrico, still a youth, is carried off by the gypsy Azucena. Their father having dies, Count Di Luna is a rival with Manrico for the affections of Leonora. After many sensational adventures Manrico is caught and placed in a dungeon by the Count. Leonora to free him promises to marry the Count, and then takes poison. The Count, finding Leonora is dead, orders Manrico to be executed. He then discovers from Azucena, who sees his locket, that Manrico, whom he has had beheaded, was his long-lost brother.
- A crude washerwoman in the military entourage of Napoleon is snubbed by the new aristocrats in his court.
- This is the story of the most remarkable case of mistaken identity and the most terrible miscarriage of justice ever written in the judicial annals of the world. Roussel, a wealthy merchant, has the misfortune to have in Gasnier, a bandit, a double; the resemblance between them being remarkable. On the 27th of May, 1795, Roussel visits his father's little inn on the road to Orleans. At 7 P.M. he returned to Paris. At 11 P.M. the same night Gasnier and three companions, Nicolet, Champion and Minot, rob the Orleans coach, carrying $375,000 for General Bonaparte's army. Later Roussel is shot by Gasnier, who thinks the would-be assassin is his son. Roussel, the merchant, is arrested, tried and convicted. His future son-in-law tries desperately to prove Roussel innocent, but is thwarted at every turn by Gasnier and Roussel is finally executed. At the moment of his execution Judge Lebas discovers the real criminal and realizes an innocent man has gone to his death.
- The dissolute Emperor Heliogabalus dresses as a woman, and looses lions among his guests.
- An old violinist is possessed of an instrument which is the dearest thing to his heart, except his little grandson. His daughter and her husband find the care of the old man a burden and believe that he has some money concealed somewhere in the house. They make a careful search, sometimes using the poor old man roughly, but have failed to find the hiding place. In such an atmosphere a man with a nature like his could not survive. After his death, the violin, the only memento left of the old man, is carefully cherished by his daughter and the old man's grandson. Subsequently the husband dies and the mother and the child are left in want. The boy, who has been taught to play upon the violin by his grandfather, goes out into the world to seek his fortune with the instrument, but almost immediately the violin is torn from his grasp and run over by a passing motor car. In picking up the fragments, the boy discovers the hiding place of the old man's wealth,
- Novelty short showcasing a troupe of acrobats.
- The daughter of a boatman falls in love with a shore-dweller, and runs away in the face of her father's disapproval. This simple film prefigures in its settings Jean Vigo's celebrated L'Atalante.
- A fainting spell surprises an old actor on stage and he is brought back to his home dying, and sees his main roles parade before him as he dies. Don Juan, Othello, Napoleon.
- 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 realism extend to retaining moments that other filmmakers of the era would otherwise discard. Scenes begin and end without cutting on activity; the frame, occasionally, is unconventionally absent of actors. Therein, in a sense, THE DEFECT is one of the earliest "inaction" movies in the history of cinema!
- A doctor has an unusual method of examining someone's brains.
- An actress returns from the theatre and discovers her apartment has been burglarized; she lights a cigarette and the room catches fire; the burglar saves her life, and she, in return, saves his, and he returns her jewels.
- Lieutenant Mordaunt and his little sweetheart, Yum Yum, has many pleasant hours in the land of the Rising Sun. So winning are the ways of the little Japanese maiden, that Jack Tar falls very, very deeply in love with her. When love enters all else is forgotten, and thus, when the time for the departure of the fleet arrives, the lieutenant awakens to find that it was all a dream, and that it is now time to be up and doing and leave his little sweetheart behind him. The fleet returns to port, and Mordaunt goes home to his people. Staying at the house are three of his cousins, who greet him boisterously, for being female cousins, they look forward to jolly times with the breezy sailor. Mordaunt's thoughts still turn to the land of the Rising Sun and to his little sweetheart far across the ocean. To their great disappointment, the cousins find a great change in their once cheerful playmate. In place of the breezy sailor man is a poor love-sick swain, who can do naught else but sigh the hours away. The girls find the source of the trouble in the shape of a half-finished letter to Japan, and they decide to have some fun. Arraying themselves in Japanese clothes, they annoy their cousin considerably by appearing before him in the garb he loves so well, only to disappear again into a thicket or behind a tree. Finally, the tormentors are surprised to see their big, manly cousin burst into tears. From that moment Mordaunt becomes more and more melancholy, and in fact, his parents begin to entertain grave fears as to his health. Meanwhile the little Japanese girl beyond the seas has not remained idle. With the energy and enterprise of her race, she has decided to follow her lover beyond the seas. After a long and weary voyage, the little Japanese maiden arrives in Europe. Having carefully rehearsed her part beforehand, the winsome Yum Yum finds little difficulty in finding her way to her lover, who is, by this time desperately ill. At first Mordaunt does not recognize Yum Yum, on account of her European dress, which becomes her so well, but when she again dons the kimono and flaunts again her dainty fan, the lieutenant recognizes her, and all their troubles are forgotten.
- The body of a cook is brought to life by an electrician through the use of electrodes.
- Story behind infamous Nicollo Paganini, the musician who sold his soul to the devil in the 19th century.
- This Bible story lends itself beautifully to cinematographic representation. The story of the great love of Abraham for his son Isaac, the command of Jehovah to sacrifice his son, Abraham's compliance with God's order and the angel's intervention at the last moment to prevent the actual sacrifice, is all beautifully shown in this highly interesting film. The subject is treated with the dignity it deserves and will impress this portion of Biblical history on the mind of both young and old in an entirely novel and lasting manner.
- The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Rveolution aged only 31.
- An historical drama, illustrating the court life of France, governed by the influence of Catherine de Medici. Splendidly reproduced, powerfully enacted, full of human interest and incident. Introducing the following scenes: Courtyard, gallants and courtiers; the Audience Chamber, King Francis II and his court; the Royal Document, "on account of heresy and insolence to the Queen, our mother, we declare La Renandie guilty of high treason;" the Document is signed; Love scene on terrace, guards arrest La Renandie for high treason; Faithful unto death, prisoner brought forth; Final verdict, appeal to the King. He is ill; nobody is allowed an interview; the King's Pardon; La Renandie in prison, receipt of royal order for execution; Catherine de Medici intervenes and offers La Renandie his pardon, repulsed; the Firing Party prepares to carry out the execution, Mlle. D'Espard arrives with the King's pardon. Saved by love.