The Colonel's Account

This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane old coot, he runs amok acting out his war-time heroics--smashing and throwing everything in the room!

The Dungeon

A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.

L'hôtel du silence

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

The Shipwreck

Léonce: Cinematographer

Leonce works at the Gaumont studios as star actor and his wife suspects him of being unfaithful. She finds ladies' hair on his coat, fan letters in his pocket...

The Buoy

Le Festin de Balthazar

A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.

Judith and Holophernes

The Seven Deadly Sins

A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.

A Drama of the Air

An aging engineer pursues a scheme to build a flying machine at the expense of his family's health. When his daughter falls ill, he enters a flying competition to win money for her treatment, even though his design is dangerously untested.

The Nativity

A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.