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

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 decides it's time to get out of the city, so he ties an abandoned bath tub to a truck and lets it tow him to the seaside. Once there,...

An Émile Cohl animation short.

French horror short from 1911.

An animation where real life objects turn into animations.

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

The lighthouse keeper has an attack while cleaning the light. He makes his unsteady way down to the living quarters and collapses. While his wife...

A couple takes a trip through the city on a tandem bike - chaos ensues.

This subject illustrates the pathetic attachment that exists between a dog and his blind master.

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

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

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

The homeless Polycarpe steals a rifle from some careless society sportsmen and goes on a mindless shooting spree. (MoMA)

A record of Italian emigrants on their way to a new life in Brazil.

The King drops dead, and the heir is his newborn son. Uncle Otto - with a name like that, how could they not know? - arranges to have the kid...

Charles Servaes playing Polycarpe is cooking some eggs in his residential hotel. What do you need when you want to cook eggs?A clean chimney that...

When Pierre Dormain and his wife die in a train disaster, the custody of their children Simon and Dédée is transferred to their uncle...