Le masque arraché

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poster The Masquerader

The Masquerader

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.

poster The Marvellous Wreath

The Marvellous Wreath

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

poster Le cigare introuvable

Le cigare introuvable

Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.

poster Tit for Tat

Tit for Tat

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by …

poster Poor Pierrot

Poor Pierrot

15mn - Comedy, Animation

One night, Arlequin comes to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.

poster Robert Macaire and Bertrand

Robert Macaire and Bertrand

11mn - Comedy, Crime

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.

poster The Untamable Whiskers

The Untamable Whiskers

3mn - Fantasy, Comedy

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist.…

Rabid

91mn - Horror, Sci-Fi

After a motorcycle accident leaves her severely injured, Rose undergoes experimental plastic surgery that transforms her into a bloodthirsty predator with a vampiric stinger hidden in her armpit. As she f…

poster Haunt Season

Haunt Season

81mn - Horror, Comedy, Thriller

A masked killer stalks cast members at a Halloween haunted house attraction, turning their staged scares into deadly reality as terror escalates beyond performance.

poster A Funny Shave

A Funny Shave

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

poster The Knight of the Snow

The Knight of the Snow

16mn - Adventure, Horror, Fantasy

One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few of his most lavish productions, including this one. Here, Méliès performed in front…

poster The Miser

The Miser

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser keep all of his money to himself and refuses to help peo…

poster Transformation by Hats

Transformation by Hats

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

poster Vacuum Killer

Vacuum Killer

After losing an arm in an explosion caused by his attempt to resurrect his recently deceased mother, Chris Burst, a young laboratory assistant, seeks refuge in the home of a drug dealer known to his frien…

poster Nightmare in Wax

Nightmare in Wax

The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.

Protéa

50mn - Action, Crime, Mystery

Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Jose…

poster Nursing a Viper

Nursing a Viper

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguis…

poster The Four Troublesome Heads

The Four Troublesome Heads

1mn - Comedy, Fantasy

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposi…

poster A Self-Made Mongrel

A Self-Made Mongrel

7mn - Animation

A wealthy eccentric owns a talking mongrel dog, and the dog, deciding to upgrade his pedigree, decides he is a born watch-dog. The owner puts on a mask with the intention of breaking into his own house an…

poster The Magician

The Magician

1mn - Fantasy, Drama

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides of the box fall to the ground, but instead …

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