- Description:
- DVD - Region free. viewing copy. 2 videodiscs of 2.
b/w.
fullscreen. sound.
- Notes:
- Supplemental features include: short documentary featurettes on “La Veine comique,” “Sales Gosses,” “Un précurseur de Cecil B. DeMille,” “Le miroir de l’écran,” “Une doctrine: La Vie telle qu’elle est”; French-language booklet with essays, bios, film descriptions, and archival imagery.
Titles
+ Récit du Colonel, Le
- Alternate Title:
- The Colonel’s Account
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1907
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A guest’s war stories throw the dining room into vaudevillian disorder.
+ Une dame vraiment bien
- Alternate Title:
- A Very Fine Lady
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1908
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A beautiful woman (Renée Carl) walking home distracts the men on the streets of Paris.
+ Bébé tire à la cible
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- The maid of a bourgeois family falls victim to the young son’s love of shooting.
+ Bout de Zan vole un éléphant
- Alternate Title:
- Bout de Zan Steals an Elephant
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Bout de Zan steals a circus elephant.
+ Erreur tragique
- Alternate Title:
- Tragic Error
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 24 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- An aristocrat is seized with jealousy after seeing his young wife at the cinema with another man.
+ Coeur et l’argent, Le
- Alternate Title:
- The Heart and the Money
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- An innkeeper’s daughter is caught between the man she loves and the man her mother has ordered her to marry.
+ Printemps, Le
- Alternate Title:
- Spring
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1909
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Forest nymphs dance to welcome the spring.
+ Fée des grèves, La
- Alternate Title:
- The Fairy of the Surf
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1909
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Hand-colored fairy tale about a water sprite captured by the prince of an ancient Breton castle.
+ Nativité, La
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1910
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Historical drama told from the perspective of one of the Magi.
+ Orgie romaine, L’
- Alternate Title:
- The Roman Orgy
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Hand-colored historical spectacle of a dissolute emperor and his guests.
+ Agonie de Byzance, L’
- Alternate Title:
- The Agony of Byzance
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 29 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Opulently staged telling of the fall of Constantinople.
+ Possession de l’enfant, La
- Alternate Title:
- Custody of the Child
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1909
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Melodrama about a custody dispute in a rich family, marking an early example of Feuillade’s more realistic style at Gaumont in the 1910’s.
+ Trust, Le
- Alternate Title:
- Les Batailles de l’argent; The Trust, or Battles for Money
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 24 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- An inventor is kidnapped to force him to reveal the secret of his invention.
+ Tare, La
- Alternate Title:
- The Flaw; The Defect
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 41 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Anna is rescued from a Parisian nightclub to work in a charity hospital, until she is recognized by someone from her former life.
+ Nain, Le
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Melodrama about the love of a dwarf for a frivolous actress.
+ Hantise, La
- Alternate Title:
- The Obsession
- Director:
- Feuillade, Louis
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 24 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A palm-reader reveals that her client’s husband, booked to voyage on the Titanic, is doomed.