Pathe Freres Movies

A poor old woman tries in vain to get rid of some troublesome fleas.

Three little chimney-sweepers fall down at the door of a farmhouse exhausted with fatigue and cold when the snow is falling. The most courageous of th...

A woman confessing her sins to a priest who gets more and more excited.

Silent film.

This is, for 1906, a strikingly ambitious prototype-documentary travelogue filmed in and around the cities now called Kolkata and Mumbai. It's full of...

Short film by Pathé frères released in 1905

Paula Peters, the trainer, shows a series of tricks executed by her marvelously well trained troop of horses and dogs, assisted by two or three clever...

Early silent film

Pathé comedy short

Pathé-Journal newsreel on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie on the...

A train ride with a view from the back of the train.

Jeannot sees a lithograph of a ballet dancer and decides he wants one of them and heads to the big city. Jeanette decides she can be one and likewise...

A couple of performers perform the big love number from the Oscar Strauss operetta.

In a medium long shot, we see a view of the Seine, with some logs floating. Perhaps they are rubbish. Swimmers enter from the right, get as far as the...

A man walks down to the water's edge, takes off his clothes and prepares to go for a swim.... only to find himself fully clothed. This happens again a...

Flesh-eating birds are many but few persons have ever been permitted a close inspection and study of their habits and characteristics. To a great majo...

At the beach, amorous Max exchanges his shoes for those of a fair bather. The scheme goes awry, Linder's dog still further adding to the fun.

Men in boats traveling along the Ozu River, sometimes getting out to walk on the gravel and pull the vessels along.

Earliy short film with mischievous kids.