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The Bandits in Evening Dress
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The Imprints
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The Banker.
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The Coiners; or, Catching the Counterfeiters
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The Jewel Affair
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With contraband strapped to the backs of their dogs, smugglers set off to cross the Spanish-French border. Having been spied upon and betrayed to customs officers, a fierce skirmish results and only the dogs and a single smuggler reach their destination.
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The proud owner of a new car in 1907 gets behind the wheel for the first time and weaves down the street, hitting everything from lamp-posts to market stalls and baby carriages. An ever-increasing crowd of incensed pursuers chases after him...
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A drunk man is going to buy more drink at his wife's expense, which he takes advantage of to get more drunk.
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Andre Deed is moving out, so he has hired some guys with a cart to move his stuff...... and they have a drink to seal the deal. They load his cart...... and they have a drink..... in short, but the time this is over, Deed is pretty loaded too in this amusing comedy.
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Child prank causes chase for few ballons and one lady's wig
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Her husband goes away on a business trip. Her lover appears. However, before they can begin their affair, there is a knock on the door. He hides in a dirt chest. When the maid is gone, he comes out. There is a knock on the door. He hides in a filthy closet. When the gossip is gone, he comes out. There is a knock on the door....
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The apprentice at a pastry shop is more interested in playing tricks on people than sweeping the pavement in front of the shop; more interested in eating the pies with a friend than in delivering them; and so, when the butts of all his tricks set off after him, he runs.... but takes a few swipes at them.
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A man is chased by ten women!
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In a bathroom, a big lady undresses. Shot of girl in bath back, perched on a stool watching her through the window over the door. The girl then changes the door and moves her escabot with a smile. In the other bathroom, a man manages to nail a client's feet.
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In this early adaptation of the Odyssey, three Olympian goddesses compete for beauty.
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The Lumière catalog sold this title as 13 individual, one-scene films, allowing exhibitors to choose which films they wanted to purchase and how to arrange them in their programs. Lumière catalog no. 933 through 945.
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Thieves are chased by police on rooftops.
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Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main role in most of the films and here plays the woman in drag who is terrorized by the X-ray camera at a customs checkpoint while trying to smuggle contraband through.
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Two bearded sages engage ina dispute before a large cauldron, from which they summon up Mephistopheles.
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Staging of the title event.
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Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor. (IMDb)
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A man does a practical joke on a chestnut vendor.
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A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.
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This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss the coronation.
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This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss the coronation.
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A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.
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One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.
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Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.
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This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.
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This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Jean-Paul Marat--who has the notorious distinction of having influenced the Reign of Terror.
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As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.
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A balcony courting scene turns into a man being beaten in a sack.
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Soldiers try to defend themselves inside of a crumbling shack.
