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It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Esmeralda
The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Note: This is a LOST film; the existing...
Silent film directed by Georges Demenÿ for Gaumont. An actual remake of the Lumiére brothers' "Démolition d'un mur" (1896).
Les démolisseurs
A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.
Midwife to the Upper Class
A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other. The director of this film is not credited in any contemporary catalogues...
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
A hypnotist tricks his patients. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed, Gaston Breteau, Alice...
At the Hypnotist's
A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.
The Fisherman at the Stream
A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow. "L'Hiver: Danse de la neige" is the fourth and last film of the series DANSE DES SAISONS. "Le...
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
"Les Fredaines de Pierrette" is the collective name of four short films of 20 meters each ("Arrivée de Pierrette et de Pierrot",...
Pierrette's Escapades
A fighting couple gets interrupted by the landlady.
An Untimely Intrusion
Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...
Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu
Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city. Gaston Breteau filmed the original film in early 1898 for Lumiére, and also the...
The Burglars
Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops.
The Bricklayers
In commercial sales catalogs from the Société L. Gaumont et Cie, this film (cataloged under "Vues animées") is credited to the...
Les Concierges
Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.
At the Club
A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.
At the Photographer's
A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.
Faust and Mephistopheles
A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop. There is no known director for this film, although it is included in the filmography of Alice...
The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man
An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed,...
Disappearing Act