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poster The General
The General
(4.1/5)
67mn - Action, Adventure, Comedy
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to…
poster Ateliers de La Ciotat
Ateliers de La Ciotat
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.
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 The Mechanical Man
The Mechanical Man
(3.0/5)
80mn - Comedy, Sci-Fi
The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine. The mechanical man possess super-human speed and strength. The scientist is killed however…
poster The Blacksmiths
The Blacksmiths
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water,…
poster Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a smelter into a yard, one worker sprays it with water fro…
poster Rentrée à l'étable
Rentrée à l'étable
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.
poster Patterns
Patterns
(3.9/5)
83mn - Drama
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon become…
poster Ballet Mécanique
Ballet Mécanique
19mn - Documentary, Fantasy
A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.
poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres
Calino courtier en paratonnerres
5mn -
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 Attelage d'un camion
Attelage d'un camion
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.
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 Electric House
The Electric House
23mn - Comedy
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
poster The Magician's Cavern
The Magician's Cavern
3mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.
poster The Garage
The Garage
(3.4/5)
25mn - Comedy
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own b…
poster The Mighty
The Mighty
(3.3/5)
72mn - Action, Drama, Crime
A hardened gangster's life transforms when he's drafted into World War I, rising from mob enforcer to decorated war hero. Upon returning home, he must honor a dying promise to a fallen comrade while accep…
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 Dough and Dynamite
Dough and Dynamite
(3.0/5)
28mn - Comedy
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
poster The Big Lift
The Big Lift
(3.3/5)
120mn - War, Action, Adventure
The Berlin Air Lift from the point of view of two Air Force NCOs who navigate romance in a bombed out post WW2 Germany.
poster The Man of the Sea
The Man of the Sea
86mn - Drama
Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing wh…
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