Most Viewed From Pathé Frères

Misfortunes of a jacket.

The pictures show a thin stream of water rising in the air and supporting a hollow ball, made of glass or thin celluloid. We see such balls dancing...

This exquisitely coloured film features a series of models rotating slowly in front of the camera, allowing close-up views of their various...

Comedy ensues when two men accidentally swap hats at the barber's. After discovering the mix-up, the first man to leave returns to the shop to...

Pictures of travel in such places as the Orient and the black continent are always sure to be interesting, for not many of us have sojourned in these...

A man is very nervous. His wife gives him some nerve powder which works. The man proceeds to give the nerve powder to everyone he meets.

Butterfly chase.

Looking from left to right, the actor shows the heads of various types of men in ever-changing disguises.

Three individuals, dressed as musketeers, are wanted under the charge of having, in collaboration, composed a drama that made laugh all the sensitive...

A boy finds a kaleidoscope on the street and uses it as an opportunity to charge bystanders to look through it.

A man of huge proportions is seated in a high-back armchair and is turning over in his mind what he will do to amuse himself. Rising and placing...

Short film from 1908

Five Japanese acrobats perform their remarkable feats

Travelogue. Scenes in and around Trouville, “the Queen of Beaches”, the fashionable seaside resort in Normandy. Views include the Casino,...

A faun dances in the woods.

A collection of African views.

Short film from 1910

Two next-door neighbors read the same article that makes them smile. They talk about it through the window. Shortly after, a peddler visits them...

Short comedy centered around fishing. A Pathé production that survives in the BFI collection.

A grieving mother sends her two young children out to earn a living. No one seems willing to help them. The gendarmes are busy standing around a...