Ferdinand Zecca Filmes

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet...

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...

Maxime Vermont tries to get a financial help from his father-in-law, to no avail. Inspired by an idea from a pulp serial, Maxime sets out to kill his...

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

This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.

Max causes havoc when he joins other skaters on a frozen lake.

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...

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....

Two men get into a knife fight, in a Corsican tavern, and one of them kills another and escapes. He takes refuge in his house but escapes when the...

A young woman receives a message, and hurriedly leaves home. But the message was a trick to lure her into a trap, where she is assaulted and killed....

An opium smoker intoxicated by this poison, falls asleep and dreams that he is in prison.

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes...

Some naughty scenes from a balcony.

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

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

A delightful and typical farce film, ending with the usual Gallic chase.

Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor. After encountering numerous...