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poster Eskimotive

Eskimotive

8mn - Animation

Felix & his friend have fun playing at blowing bubbles. Felix gets inside one and is blown away. The bubble lands on a snowy mountain and turns...

poster The Acrobatic Fly

The Acrobatic Fly

3mn - Documentary

Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a miniature dumbbell… Most extraordinary of all is the seq…

poster The Wee Men

The Wee Men

9mn - Comedy, Animation

A yarn about the mythical Leprechauns who reside in Ireland and their crock of gold. The legend says that if anyone succeeds in capturing one of the wee men, the little person must then lead them to where…

poster The Knight of Black Art

The Knight of Black Art

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

poster Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!

Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!

Poor Eugénie! She's humpbacked and everyone wants to straighten her out, but when success finally comes, she's too tall not to cause disasters. To solve the problem, the help of a sword swallower is urgen…

poster Ateliers de La Ciotat

Ateliers de La Ciotat

1mn - Documentary

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

poster Extraordinary Illusions

Extraordinary Illusions

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

poster A Clever Dummy

A Clever Dummy

An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.

poster Onésime's Theatrical Debut

Onésime's Theatrical Debut

Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled. We must say, in respect for the truth, that he earned what critics calls "the estimated success": Onésime, …

poster Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

poster Gopher Spinach

Gopher Spinach

6mn - Animation

Popeye is planting his spinach bed. Just as he finishes, the plants start disappearing. He discovers a gopher filching the baby plants and starts battling it.

poster The Enchanted Pond

The Enchanted Pond

In an outdoor setting, a magician makes pond nymphs and frog people appear out of water and thin air.

poster The Magician and the Imp

The Magician and the Imp

1mn - Comedy, Fantasy

The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth is suddenly transformed into a beautiful girl, clad i…

poster Horse Trick Riders

Horse Trick Riders

1mn - Documentary

In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a black uniform, demonstrates how to mount the horse then enc…

poster A Mesmerian Experiment

A Mesmerian Experiment

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

poster The Imperceptible Transmutations

The Imperceptible Transmutations

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.

poster Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer

Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …

Concert

On the terrace of a villa, a violinist, two pianists and a singer are playing, until they are interrupted by a false note.

poster Aquarium

Aquarium

1mn - Documentary

Different species of fish and frogs, inside an aquarium.

poster Entr'acte

Entr'acte

22mn - Comedy, Fantasy

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp …

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