LA CUCARACHA
United States / 1934 / 19’40 / Colour / Musical
Production RKO, director Lloyd Corrigan
A cult movie, nearly disappeared: the first film ever shot in Glorious Technicolor, restored in its original brightness thanks to the fortuitous discovery of camera negatives in a university cellar!
This very kitsch musical based in Mexico, which offers all the flashiness of Technicolor, will certainly make people dance on the most famous song La Cucaracha.

 

NEVER WEAKEN
United States / 1921 / 22’ / Black and White / Slapstick
Production Hal Roach, directors Fred NEWMEYER and Sam TAYLOR / Starring Harold Lloyd
Slapstick actor Harold Lloyd, the young man with round glasses and a boater, scarcely appears on screen nowadays. Here is one of his funniest shorts, foreshadowing Safety Last shot 2 years later with a tightrope number over the buildings.

 

HE COMES UP SMILING
United States / 1918 / Black and White Silent / 5’ Excerpt / Comedy
Production Douglas Fairbanks Pictures, director Allan Dwan
The first dazzling five minutes of a lost film starring the great Douglas Fairbanks: a miraculously surviving piece accidentally found in a box among crap. Here is the beginning of a feature film by Allan Dwan, who would employ Fairbanks again in 2 of his adventure films, Robin Hood in 1922 and The Iron Mask in 1929.

 

THE CUCKOO MURDER CASE
Cartoon from the Flip The Frog Series
United States / 1930 / 7’40 / Black and White / Production Celebrity Pictures, director Ub Iwerks
After leaving the Disney Studios where he had drawn the first Mickeys, Ub Iwerks created his own studio and launched the character of Flip the Frog, which he directed in about forty episodes between 1930 and 1933. This adventure of the animated frog is one of the first of the series.

 

JE VAIS CHERCHER LE PAIN
France / 1906 / 5’ / Comic film / Production Pathé
A couple of workers is having dinner with friends. Soup is served but bread is missing. The husband goes to the baker’s, but on his way he finds a lot of cafes...

 

LA CRUE DE LA SEINE
France / 1910 / 5’ / Production ECLIPSE
Black and White Tinted
New images about the biggest flood ever experienced in Paris in the XXth century.

 

CUNEGONDE RAMONEUR
France / 1912 / 6’30/ Comic film / Production Lux
Cunégonde, a clumsy maid, turns into a chimney sweep, driving her employers to despair.