Georges Hatot

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Jean-Paul Marat--who has the notorious distinction of having influenced the Reign of Terror. (imdb)

A balcony courting scene turns into a man being beaten in a sack.

Quick rendition of a Greek myth.

Nero tests poison on a slave.

Staging of the title event.

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

Two men pull a practical prank on two victims.

One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.

This one is modeled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as "tableau vivante". (imdb)

The Lumière catalog sold this title as 13 individual, one-scene films - allowing exhibitors to choose which films they wanted to purchase and how to arrange them in their programs. Lumière catalog no. 933 through 945. (imdb)

Two naughty boys switch the horse of a carriage for a wooden horse.

With contraband strapped to the backs of their dogs, smugglers set off to cross the Spanish-French border. Having been spied upon and betrayed to customs officers, a fierce skirmish results and only the dogs and a single smuggler reach their destination. (imdb)

The proud owner of a new car in 1907 gets behind the wheel for the first time and weaves down the street, hitting everything from lamp-posts to market stalls and baby carriages. An ever-increasing crowd of incensed pursuers chases after him... (imdb)

In a bathroom, a big lady undresses. Shot of girl in bath back, perched on a stool watching her through the window over the door. The girl then changes the door and moves her escabot with a smile. In the other bathroom, a man manages to nail a client's feet.

A man is chased by ten women!

Two bearded sages engage ina dispute before a large cauldron, from which they summon up Mephistopheles.

Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main role in most of the films and here plays the woman in drag who is terrorized by the X-ray camera at a customs checkpoint while trying to smuggle contraband through.

Thieves are chased by police on rooftops.

Her husband goes away on a business trip. Her lover appears. However, before they can begin their affair, there is a knock on the door. He hides in a dirt chest. When the maid is gone, he comes out. There is a knock on the door. He hides in a filthy closet. When the gossip is gone, he comes out. There is a knock on the door....

The apprentice at a pastry shop is more interested in playing tricks on people than sweeping the pavement in front of the shop; more interested in eating the pies with a friend than in delivering them; and so, when the butts of all his tricks set off after him, he runs.... but takes a few swipes at them.

Andre Deed is moving out, so he has hired some guys with a cart to move his stuff...... and they have a drink to seal the deal. They load his cart...... and they have a drink..... in short, but the time this is over, Deed is pretty loaded too in this amusing comedy.

Some boys sneak up on a woman sleping on a park bench and tie a string of balloons to her hair. Away goes the balloon, away goes the hair, revealing the woman is bald, away goes the woman in pursuit, away go the bystanders.

A drunk man is going to buy more drink at his wife's expense, which he takes advantage of to get more drunk.

A Lumiere brothers' take on the famous legend.