Spring: Episode 1 - The Awakening of the Source / The Awakening of Nests (1909)

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!

Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as she walks though the streets of Paris.

The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man.

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

A four-year-old saves the day.

The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests.

A poor boy is mistreated by his mother when his father isn't looking.

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.

Polin performs a song.

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Mayol, who was then filmed "lip singing". Guy would film phonoscenes of all three major Belle Époque celebrities in France: Polin, Félix Mayol, and Dranem.

Felix Mayol performs a song, in colour.

Dranem performs "Five O'Clock Tea" for Alice Guy.

Saharet performs the bolero for Alice Guy.

A living statue causes trouble for unsuspecting bystanders.

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.

A bunch of bricklayers cause trouble for the local cops.

A bullfighter dances with a woman.

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.