BY INDIAN POST
Western / United States 1919 / B&W Silent / 10’ / Director John Ford
Quite an  event ! A lost film by young John Ford, when he was still called « Jack » Ford. This cut version ending with a fantastic wedding on horseback, brilliantly demonstrates how Ford’s genius already standed out against the streams of low-cost cow-boy films shot at that time.

 

LA REVUE DES REVUES (PARISIAN PLEASURES)
Musical / France 1927 / B&W Tinted / Director Joe Francis / Starring Joséphine Baker
The script of this feature film is a pretext to review the major Parisian Revues of the year 1926, with sumptuous Art Deco sets and costumes. Joséphine Baker in two numbers of the « Folie du Jour » Revue is the icing of the cake !

 

HIS WOODEN WEDDING
Slapstick / United States 1925 / B&W Silent / 19’30 / Director Leo McCarey, starring Charley Chase
To stop his wedding, a spiteful rival makes Charley think that the bride has a wooden leg... Charley manages to escape, and embarks on a liner to forget his grief.
A great slapstick film by Leo McCarey (creator of the Laurel and Hardy duo), to mark the release of the DVD set Charley Chase by Leo McCarey available since November 2004.

 

DESTINO
Animation / United States 1946 / 7’ / A Walt Disney Production
One has heard of the links between Dali and film, of his collaboration with Buñuel in the early thirties.
But who knows he also tried his hand at film animation?
For the centenary of his birth, here is the wonderful result of the meeting between Salvador and Walt.

 

PATES POL (POL PASTA)
Commercial / France 1930 / 0’30
A funny comparison between the consistency of the Pol pasta and the firmness of the feminine flesh...

 

LE MEDECIN DU BAGNE (THE PENAL COLONY DOCTOR)
Drama / France 1911 / B&W / 7’24 / Production Gaumont / Director Georges-André Lacroix / With René Navarre, Edmond Bréon, Paul Manson
The extravagant adventures of an unscrupulous doctor, irresistibly commented by Betove.

 

THE BIG SWALLOW
Trick film / Great-Britain 1901 / 0’50 / Director John WILLIAMSON
A man approaches the camera nearer and nearer, opens his mouth and swallows it.

 

NIMBUS LIBÉRÉ (PROFESSOR NIMBUS LIBERATED)
Cartoon / France 1944 / B&W / 2’30 / Director Cal
A pro-German propaganda film where the Americans, represented by Mickey, Donald and Popeye and supposed to liberate France, actually bomb the house of Professor Nimbus while he listens to the BBC.

 

LES INCONVENIENTS DE LA BIERE (THE DISADVANTAGES OF BEER)
Comic film / France 1907 / B&W / 6’ / Production Théophile Pathé
After 13 pints of beer a boozer is desperately looking for a place where to urinate.

 

SAMMELT KNOCHEN
Documentary / Germany 1918 / 11’30 / Production Bild und Film Amt
Citizens, don’t throw bones away any more after lunch ! An organization collects and grinds them in order to obtain various products... such as cattle food. The recycling of animal protein 70 years before the mad cow !

 

COMMENT ON APPREND A NAGER AVEC UNE ASSIETTE
(HOW TO LEARN SWIMMING WITH A PLATE)
Documentary / France 1920’s / 6’
This little educational film from the mid-Twenties intended to introduce the country people to the joys of swimming in only a few days.