Movies: Societe Des Etablissements Gaumont

An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic germ which in its growth gives birth to the following people who dissolve into one another and into other shapes with startling mystery....

Mozart feels compelled to finish a final requiem as he fears death is quickly approaching. Although the doctor has specifically ordered Mozart not to play or compose, Mozart begins a composition after listening to his student play the violin and havi...

A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals....

A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to their most burning questions....

And here is an early success as he puts the viewer in the mood of a little boy, playing with his toys, running them through the paces of his little circus....

Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of his room, but instead of falling to his death, the anchor of a passing balloon intercepts his flight...

Several unique specimens of highly ornamented porcelain are shown in series. In each case the various pieces of ware are in reality formed of living people. After a short time has been allowed for admiration of each article, it disintegrates into the...

A talented painter spends his vacation in Arles, where he paints a portrait of a beautiful Arlesian woman with whom he falls in love. The young girl is engaged to a very jealous guard of the Camargue. Upon learning of this long-standing affair, the p...

A film about cupid shoes by Émile Cohl....

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This subject presents a remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very prominent part....

A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under the microscope. The "microbes" coalesce and form different shapes, creating caricatures of various peo...

The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book....

At a dinner party, a hostess serves her guests a dish made using meat from a bull. While most of them enjoy the meal, one man has a strange reaction: Taking a set of horns off the wall, he attaches them to his head and sets off on a rampage. After de...

A silent short film attributed to Louis Feuillade. This film from 1909 by Gaumont is currently lost. Do not confuse it with Pathé's film from 1905 of the same name (Les Voleurs d'enfants), which is available to watch on YouTube....

This subject portrays in a vivid manner the operations of a puppet in his efforts to see the sights....

A delightfully pleasing and beautifully hand-colored series of panoramic views, giving the history of the fan. A large ostrich feather fan opens and closes alternately, showing each time a different scene and the various styles of fans in use through...

Once Madame Ducordon discovers the joys of a new fashionable dance, she starts performing it wherever she happens to be....

Stop-motion film from Émile Cohl has a clown walk out in front of a group of people and do various tricks including standing on his head, riding a horse and falling face first off the horse....

Burlesque: the champion describes his race with such conviction that everyone is carried away with him....