El profesional

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poster Benítez quiere ser torero

Benítez quiere ser torero

Benitez pretends to be a toreador and his friends decide to pull a prank on him.

poster Horses Bathing

Horses Bathing

1mn - Documentary

Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.

poster His New Profession

His New Profession

Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.

poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.

poster An American in the Making

An American in the Making

An Immigrant has come to the United States and is sponsored by a relative. He takes him to find employment and show him how the American work is protected by showing different types of safety equipment.

Carmen

In order to help her smuggler kinsmen, a sultry gypsy seduces and corrupts an officer of the Civil Guard turning him into a traitor and murderer.

poster Alcofribas, The Master Magician

Alcofribas, The Master Magician

Two men in a cave perform magic.

poster The Doctor's Secret

The Doctor's Secret

Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.

poster Sideshow Wrestlers

Sideshow Wrestlers

8mn - Drama, Comedy

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

poster Der Jongleur

Der Jongleur

1mn - Documentary

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

poster Barcelona and Its Park

Barcelona and Its Park

3mn - Documentary

Short movie on Barcelona's "Citadel Park" produced by Segundo de Chomón for Pathé Frères. Directed and filmed by Segundo de Chomón.

poster The Fighting Gentleman

The Fighting Gentleman

A young mechanic loses an amateur fight at a carnival, and sets out to train hard to become a professional boxer.

poster The Prince of Magicians

The Prince of Magicians

2mn - Fantasy, Comedy

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

poster Photograph

Photograph

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him. Just as the photographer is about to take the picture,…

poster The Portrait of Captain Grogg

The Portrait of Captain Grogg

7mn - Animation

An artist receives the visit of Grogg, an animated captain, to draw his portrait

poster The Professor

The Professor

Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares t…

poster The Ballet Master's Dream

The Ballet Master's Dream

2mn - Comedy, Fantasy

It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to sleep he paces the floor and tries out dance steps. Fi…

poster Assassination and burial of José Canalejas

Assassination and burial of José Canalejas

7mn - Documentary

Film based on the assassination of the Spanish politician José Canalejas at Manuel Pardiñas's hands on 12 November of 1912. It has two parts: The first one is a fiction representation of the assassination…

poster Horse Shoeing

Horse Shoeing

1mn - Documentary, Drama

One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to driv…

Tepeyac

63mn - Fantasy, History

A man (Arroyo Carrillo) is sent to Europe on a diplomatic mission. The ship in which he travels is sunk by a German submarine. In Mexico, his girlfriend Lupita (Cota) receives a telegram with the news and…

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