Gaston Velle Filmes

Fantastic Flowers is a compilation of short silent films produced between 1906 and 1920, displaying amazing colours that were applied to each frame...

A magician performs various tricks.

A man hides his valuables under his mattress before going to sleep, blissfully unaware of the two burglars on his roof.

A woman, in her bedroom, is putting her jewelry away. Alarmed by strange noises at her door, she hides behind her bed. A burglar enters the room and...

An Italian movie about Othello.

A sorcerer conjures an old witch and instructs her to seek a maiden. Said maiden is assigned with the task to lure a young traveler inside the...

Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery.

The town-crier summons the inhabitants of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that...

A charming example of the Pathe stencil system of colour films, also using superimposition.

A merchant is giving a demonstration of his lifelike automatons to a bedazzled customer. Could these "larger than life" clockwork figures look too...

A young woman becomes pregnant and attempts to provide for her child after the father leaves her.

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....

Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their...

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

Little Bob stages his mechanical toys in a series of charming performances.

A Japanese-set magic show. There is a lot of visual trickery on display, ending with an amazing effect using reverse footage and...

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of...

A couple perform a acrobatic dance.

A fairly venturesome piece of filmmaking for the era: Based on the Jules Verne story, the film utilizes a dozen cuts, irised lenses, panning shots...