Les fourberies de scapin

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poster Tit-for-Tat
Tit-for-Tat
(3.1/5)
5mn - Fantasy
An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.
poster A Hundred Tricks
A Hundred Tricks
(2.8/5)
3mn - Comedy
poster The Treasures of Satan
The Treasures of Satan
3mn - Horror, Fantasy
The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. Satan, who has made his way into the chateau, puts the seve…
poster Faust and Marguerite
Faust and Marguerite
1mn - Fantasy, Horror
Marguerite is seated in front of the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite. Faust refuses, whereupon Meph…
poster The King and the Jester
The King and the Jester
5mn - Comedy
French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).
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.…
poster The Marvellous Wreath
The Marvellous Wreath
3mn - Fantasy
A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.
poster Faust in the Underworld
Faust in the Underworld
7mn - Fantasy
The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with sim…
poster The Four Troublesome Heads
The Four Troublesome Heads
(3.8/5)
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 Faust and Marguerite
Faust and Marguerite
4mn - Drama, Fantasy
Melies second attempt at telling the story of Faust. This time out Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the torture that awaits.
poster The Witch
The Witch
13mn - Family, Fantasy
A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and saves the beautiful princess.
poster Drama at the Puppets' House
Drama at the Puppets' House
4mn - Comedy, Animation, Crime
For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the land of puppets. A fickle maiden gets herself into numerous embarrassing complicati…
poster The Musgrave Ritual
The Musgrave Ritual
(2.6/5)
18mn - Mystery, Crime
Reginald Musgrave’s maître d’hôtel has disappeared! Called to the rescue, Sherlock Holmes goes immediately to his friend, to inspect the premises. He finds a stolen jewel in the new maître d’hôtel’s jacke…
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 Onesime, Clockmaker
Onesime, Clockmaker
(3.2/5)
8mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.
poster Pierrot the Prodigal
Pierrot the Prodigal
(2.7/5)
65mn - Drama
A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette. The young and naive Pier…
poster The Cook in Trouble
The Cook in Trouble
4mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.
poster The Oubliette
The Oubliette
29mn - Drama, History
Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly …
poster Rogues' Tricks
Rogues' Tricks
4mn - Comedy, Action
Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a trick film or something that he's known for, the directo…
poster The Imperceptible Transmutations
The Imperceptible Transmutations
2mn -
This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.
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