PROGRAMME SHOWN ON 1994
Passage du Nord-Ouest
 
 
AMOUR ET PUBLICITE , France , 1932 , 25' , Director: Léo Mittler
In order to increase his sales, a shop manager replaces the window dummies by genuine human beings...

OSTRICH, CROCODILE AND PIGEON FARMING, USA , ca 1910 , 6' , Lubin Production, Documentary , Hand tinted. A tinted documentary, quite surrealistic.

POLIDOR’S TOPHAT, Italy , 1910 , 6', Comic film , BW.
CHARLIE'S WHITE ELEPHANT , USA , 1916 , 6' , Tinted
Cartoon featuring Charlie’s character.

TWENTY MINUTES OF LOVE , USA , 1914 , 8' , Director: Charlie Chaplin, BW, The first film directed by Charlie Chaplin and considered to be lost (only clips were known to exist in the UK).

RAGTIME ROMEO 1931,

LA SERENADE , 1910 , 6' , Cinès Production , Hand tinted
Colour love rivalries at the time of Cardinal Richelieu.

FRICO BEVE LA MEDICINA ,1910 , 5' , Ambrosio Production , Comic film
Fricot drank the horse remedy but he shouldn’t have!

HALLUCINATIONS D'UN POMPIER , France , ca 1927 , 5' , Produced by the Folies Bergères Show, starring Josephine Baker. A very strange film, probably sold as a souvenir for Josephine Baker’s Show at the Folies Bergères.

JULIE CUISINIER MILITAIRE , France , 1911 , 5' , Comic film
A soldier asks his girlfriend to replace him at the kitchen.

WHAT A WHOPPER 1921,

FATAL FOOTSTEP , USA, 1926 , 22' , With Charley Bowers
Charley is training for the big Charleston Contest in order to conquer his girl. His training methods are rather special.

DEFILE DE SAINT CYRIENS 1897, 1' , Normandin Film with 5 sprockets.

CULTURE ET RECOLTE DES POMMES A WASHINGTON , USA, ca 1910 , 4' , Hand tinted. An apple crop as you have never seen one.

KOBELKOFF , France , ca 1900 , 1', An exceptional document about Kobelkoff, a trunk-man who became one of the first fairground exhibitors after a freak “ career ”.

ARTHEME AVALE SA CLARINETTE 1912, 5' , Eclipse Production, Comic film , BW

SCREEN SNAPSHOTS 1917,

LE QUADRUPLE CRIME DE JOHN 1914, 8' , Unknown production , Hand tinted

PETITES CAUSES GRANDS EFFETS, France , 1918 , 7' , Director: O'GALLOP. Animation , BW, Just after WWI, O’Gallop, the designer of the Michelin Bibendum, was asked to make 4 animated films to fight against alcoholism and tuberculosis.

L'AIGLE BOCHE EST VAINCU 1918,

LE CIRCUIT DE L'ALCOOL 1918,

POUR RESISTER A LA TUBERCULOSE 1918,

CONDITIONS PARTICULIERES DE LA CIRCULATION PARISIENNE 1929,

PUBLICINE 1940,

LES SURPRISES DE L'AMOUR , France , 1910 , 6' , Hand tinted
Starring Max Linder

LES ROSES MAGIQUES , France , 1906 , 4' , Director: Segundo de Chomon
A hand tinted trick-film inspired by the Master George Méliès.

DANSE FOLKLORIQUE 1900.