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Browse 5 movies from Société des Etablissements Gaumont (FR)
A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.
Oct 1908
A mythological scene with the most beautiful effect.
Sep 1908
Overview of ideas about the police on the occasion of an attack on the bourgeois by Apaches gangsters.
Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into a hoop with strange properties for a young girl. Costume changes and city promenades give way towards greater abstraction as the film becomes absorbed by what goes on inside the ring.
Nov 1908
A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.
Feb 1907