Renée Carl Filmes

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

Directed by Louis Feuillade. Part of the 'Life As It Is' series.

A short from Feuillade's Bébé series

Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath...

A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.

After returning from the circus, Bout-de-Zan starts doing acrobatic tricks.

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

The son of Emperor Nero's poisoner drinks the fatal potion prepared by his mother.

The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

In 1907, the Gaumont Films company in France made a slapstick comedy (silent, of course) with a title that would translate from the French as 'A...

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

Part of Feuillade's 'Life As It Is' series

Directed by Louis Feuillade.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est that Feuillade did in which people were shown as they really are and not as they ought to have been. This...