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It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Esmeralda
The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Note: This is a LOST film; the existing...
Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.
At the Club
"Les Fredaines de Pierrette" is the collective name of four short films of 20 meters each ("Arrivée de Pierrette et de Pierrot",...
Pierrette's Escapades
A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow. "L'Hiver: Danse de la neige" is the fourth and last film of the series DANSE DES SAISONS. "Le...
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other. The director of this film is not credited in any contemporary catalogues...
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.
Faust and Mephistopheles
A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.
The Magician's Alms
A hypnotist tricks his patients. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed, Gaston Breteau, Alice...
At the Hypnotist's
A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.
The Fisherman at the Stream
An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed,...
Disappearing Act
Alice Guy directed a now lost phonoscene (film that relied on a chronophone sound recording that the actors in the film lip-synced with) version of...
Faust
Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...
Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu
A man dancing at a party finds one of his socks has fallen down. Retreating where no one can see him, he removes the offending item. the consequences...
The Sock
Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops.
The Bricklayers
1900 Gaumont version of the ubiquitous Serpentine dance, this one hand tinted. Filmmaker anonymous. (not to be mistaken with Alice...
Serpentine Dance
Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city. Gaston Breteau filmed the original film in early 1898 for Lumiére, and also the...
The Burglars
A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.
Midwife to the Upper Class
Soldiers ambush a house. This is the Alice Guy version, not to be confused with the less accessible Lumiere of the same title from the same year.
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak