Ferdinand Zecca Movies

An oppressive droning score makes this rendering of the Faust legend quite disturbing to watch. The film itself consists of a number of impressive...

A happy family is brought to ruin when the father starts drinking.

Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some...

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

Stencil-coloured version of Segundo de Chomón's Les roses magiques (1906).

A well-dressed, middle-aged man is enjoying a drink at a table with a pretty young woman. He flirts with her, and she seems not to mind his...

Early silent adaptation of the fairy-tale Puss In Boots.

A policeman spots a dog stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and gives chase. Soon several more policemen have joined the pursuit. But the...

The Clever Baker, shows a not so clever baker baking.

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the...

A trick film using the reverse effect.

A man flies his plane "Fend l'Air" over Paris.

Talby is a celebrated tragedian. Among his most fervent admirers is Gaby Sombreuse. One day, Gaby meets her idol in the flesh and is... very...

Charles Prince, his gift of a posy spurned in favor of a rival's expensive ring, goes to enlist in the Balkan Wars. Sort of. That is, he goes to...

Reproduction of the terrible catastrophe which annihilated the town of St. Peter on May 8, 1902.

Jesus is forced to carry the cross along the path, but his weakness causes him to sink under the weight of the cross. Simon of Cyrene helps him, the...

Apparently inspired by the antics of Harry Houdini, Slippery Jim opens in the office of a police commissioner to whom a rather cocky villain is...

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.