Lucien Nonguet

Early Hand-colored film depicting the story of Jesus.

Max has purchased a new bathtub, but bathing in it proves to be more difficult than he anticipated. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Auguste is cured! The doctor at the asylum said so. Delighted, his mother gives him a few coins so he can go out for a little entertainment. Auguste settles in a cinema to admire the great Max Linder. Enthused by the film, he goes off with the movie poster to make himself a suit like the star's. With a false visiting card, he goes to an agent, who sends him to the Comica film company. But the charming man is going to make a terrible mistake on his way... (europafilmtreasures.eu)

Max and his young bride attempt to enjoy an Alpine honeymoon, despite the presence of her mother. (imdb)

Historical legend composed of five Scenes. 1. William Tell's heroism. 2. The Plot. 3. The Apple. 4. Death of Gessler. 5. The Swiss cheer their Liberator. This popular and interesting legend takes place amidst the country life of the mountain populations. The beautiful and picturesque sites which exist in Switzerland have given us an opportunity of utilising the resources our theatre affords, and our scene-painters have been able to have a free run on their imaginations. (imdb)

A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they reach land, a sailor who died during the mutiny is made a martyr, inspiring an uprising in the city. Then the authorities decide to repress the revolt with a brutal show of force. (imdb)

Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The Royal Edict; The Princess is Sixteen Years Old; Searching for the Princess; The Prediction Comes True; Thou Shalt Sleep for a Hundred Years; A Hundred Years later the Prince Charming Goes Hunting; Prince Charming Dismisses His Escort; The Castle of Sleep; The Guard's Hall; You Have Been a Long Time Coming, prince; (imdb)

This is quite unlike most of the films in the set, with a Biblical setting rather than a fairy story. It's also rather graphically violent, depicting the martyrdom of Christians from the Bible. In one sequence men are eaten alive by lions, with guts on display.

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son. (imdb)

Max straps on some skis and heads out for the slopes in typically clumsy fashion.

The film depicts the assassination of the Russian minister in charge of the secret police.

Early silent adaptation of the fairy-tale Puss In Boots.

A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea. (imdb)

A man is chased by ten women!

A Jewish home is attacked, killing, torturing and burning down their house.

The assassination of the Grand Duke Serge.

A soldier steals his officer's money and asks the music-hall singer he is mad about to run awy with him.

Max is about to make his first call upon a young lady, the daughter of distinguished parents, and he wants to make a good impression. As he dresses to go out he stoops over to fix his shoe and, horrors! He tears his trousers. Where? Well, in a most embarrassing place. He fixes them hurriedly, trusting to have his coat tails cover it, but alas, the coat is too short for this purpose.

In a miserable house, a mother even on the floor, wrapped in a blanket. Her little girl in her twenties (5 or 6 years old) looks at the calendar and sees that it is her mother's birthday. She quietly leaves the house and goes to the fields around the flowers to make a bouquet.

A couple of young boys clamber over a fence and break into the hen coop. They steal some eggs and a fat chicken. The adults are after them, but the boys start a fire by accident and lead the adults on a long chase.

A group of thieves take a bank safe by entering the subways of Paris, but it will not turn out well.

A woman engages in espionage for an enemy army and suffers the consequences when she is caught.

When a lawyer goes to work, two thieves enter his house who mistreat his family, but his wife has time to phone him.

A soldier, and his sergeant are in love with the same woman. The soldier in a moment of anger attacks the sergeant who for this gesture makes him imprison. The war council's judgment is immediate: deportation to military prison. In the military prison we see shocked and threatened men who are punished with torture and other brutal rites if they do not follow orders. The soldier, after a plot that took place inside the prison, is thrown into a silo that if it had not been for the help of a friend

After burglars break into a home, lay out a man, and steal valuable merchandise, the police are after them. No part of the force is more relentless than the dogs who pursue the thieves.

In this interesting picture we are given a vivid idea of the principal incidents connected with the Dreyfus case, which caused such a stir in military circles in the year of 1894. Alfred Dreyfus, an officer on the general staff, was charged with selling secrets to a foreign power. He was tried and judged guilty on flimsy evidence, and sentenced to imprisonment on Devil's Island, where he remained for eight years, until his influential friends, who took up his case in earnest.

The first part shows us the robbing of one of the wounded, the latter fights the surprised scoundrel. In the second scene we see the Japanese attacking a hill occupied by Russians and capturing their guns.

Recreation of a real-life fire that took 602 lives.