Most Viewed From Pathé Frères

"La Visite de la douane" is a humorous short film of about two minutes that portrays an absurd interaction between a traveler and a customs officer.

This richly colored picture revives an interesting incident in French history and shows us some of the famous events connected with the overthrow of...

Four sturdy moving men are busy at work taking down huge cupboards, trunks, beds, etc., and are feeling very hot and thirsty, when all at once the...

A boy visits a cafe and start smoking and drinking.

Two friends share a drink in a bar. They go separate ways, and one of them just can't stop drinking.

A thief hides inside a huge fake crocodile and crawls away, creating fear wherever he goes.

Jack Stevens informs the couple Philippe and Maud Perkins, who are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary, that he is too ill to celebrate and...

A woman dreams of getting out from under the thumb of men and turns the table on her husband.

Misbehaving student Leontine is made to wear a paper crown of shame, and sent to bed without her supper at the cruel school she attends. She will...

Four on-screen spectators serve as the viewer’s proxy at a running of the annual French championship steeplechase held at Paris’s Auteuil...

A hunter with his leg stuck in a wolf trap sends his young son for help – unfortunately the boy is easily distracted and loses track of his...

The daring skeleton-sledding racers along the now-legendary Cresta Run at St. Moritz took their lives into their own hands as they attempted to race...

Depicts the chaos at a circus following an ape’s untimely escape.

Long shots of men and women coasting (and occasionally tumbling) down the slopes in small groups, followed by a number of skiers launching themselves...

A sympathetic story of a moral dilemma set at the turn of the 19th century. A Frenchman joins the Chouannerie – a Royalist uprising in...