Societe Generale Des Cinematographes Eclipse Filmes

An animation where real life objects turn into animations.

"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.

To the rhythm of a frenzied choreography, acrobatic matches come to life on a black background. Leaving their matchbox, they line the film in...

Jeanne Doré becomes the accomplice of her son Jacques who unfortunately commits a crime to help his mistress, Fanny, find money.

An Émile Cohl animation short.

The cyclist is dispatched upon an important errand, and his humorous and alarming adventures by the way form the subject of this series. Misadventure...

French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.

The film begins with a shot of Wilbur Wright starting the engine; an unidentified assistant (quite likely his brother, Orville) is seen at the front...

Charles Servaes finds a coin on the ground and takes possession. When he tries to use it to pay for his cab ride, the cabbie says it's counterfeit....

Accident-prone Polycarpe wreaks havoc on a construction site—a popular location for so many early film comedies.

Detective Nat Pinkerton is captured by a gang of murderous bank robbers known as The Black Riders, but he turns the tables on them in the nick of...

A dog causes a man to get chased.

Polycarpe gets himself a suit with a big neck.

French horror short from 1911.

Charles Servaes as Polycarpe becomes an inspector of sort; he goes around measure the length of women's skirts in Paris to make sure they don't...

Polycarpe -- that's Charles Servaes -- encounters a painter in a museum. He strikes a funny pose and the painter decides he wants to paint that...