Georges Hatot

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...

Staging of the title event.

The Lumière catalog sold this title as 13 individual, one-scene films, allowing exhibitors to choose which films they wanted to purchase and...

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.

A man does a practical joke on a chestnut vendor.

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.

The apprentice at a pastry shop is more interested in playing tricks on people than sweeping the pavement in front of the shop; more interested in...

Andre Deed is moving out, so he has hired some guys with a cart to move his stuff...... and they have a drink to seal the deal. They load his...

A drunk man is going to buy more drink at his wife's expense, which he takes advantage of to get more drunk.

With contraband strapped to the backs of their dogs, smugglers set off to cross the Spanish-French border. Having been spied upon and betrayed to...

The proud owner of a new car in 1907 gets behind the wheel for the first time and weaves down the street, hitting everything from lamp-posts to...

In a bathroom, a big lady undresses. Shot of girl in bath back, perched on a stool watching her through the window over the door. The girl then...

Soldiers ambush a house.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

The scene takes place outside a café. Two workers are desperate to be served drinks, and the owner is forced to call in a policeman, who has...

Film adaptation of the famous French folktale by Georges Hatot.

Agents chase down rooftop criminals, and after a series of grotesque twists and turns, they finally get their hands on them.

Three goddesses, Venus, Juno and Minerva each of whom claims to be the most beautiful, call a shepherd "Paris" and ask him to decide the question and...

While the old gentleman is dying his mustache and eyebrows, putting in his monocle, and donning his toupee, the little brat fits a two-gallon jar of...

Clowns on bicycles: that pretty much sums up this short Pathe comedy. They dress in various costumes. The bicycles are in varying states of...

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

A man is chased by ten women!

Two bearded sages engage ina dispute before a large cauldron, from which they summon up Mephistopheles.

Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main...

Thieves are chased by police on rooftops.

Soldiers try to defend themselves inside of a crumbling shack.

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

A balcony courting scene turns into a man being beaten in a sack.

Her husband goes away on a business trip. Her lover appears. However, before they can begin their affair, there is a knock on the door. He hides in a...

Child prank causes chase for few ballons and one lady's wig

Félicien Trewey mimes Pierrot being harassed in his sleep by a fly.