PROGRAMME SHOWN ON June, 21, 1999
Place St-Sulpice
THOSE AWFUL HATS 1909, USA, BW, Documentary, 2'55, Director David W.Griffith, Production Biograph. Ladies, please, take your hats off when you go to the movies !
CORSA ALLA SCIMMIA 1909, Italie, BW, 3'49, Comic, Production Itala Film. A monkey escapes, causing a huge and devastating chase.
LES INONDATIONS DE PARIS 1910, France, Tinted, 5'17, Documentary, Production Lux. Documentary about the ravages caused by the biggest flood ever experienced in Paris in the XXth century.
THE HAUNTED HOUSE 1921, USA, Tinted, 23'45, Slapstick by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, with Buster Keaton and Joe Roberts. Buster, cashier in a bank, suspects his boss of misappropriating funds. He goes to his house which seems to be haunted by ghosts... but they turn out to be counterfeiters.
First screening in a rare tinted print.
LA FILLE DU SONNEUR 1906, France, 5'. A great tragedy, a very sad story.
PETITES CAUSES GRANDS EFFET, 1918, France, BW, 2'04, Animation of O'Galop. 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, France, BW, 1'27, Cartoon by O'Galop.
LE CIRCUIT DE L'ALCOOL 1918, France, BW, 2'11, Cartoon by O'Galop.
POUR RESISTER A LA TUBERCULOSE 1918, France, NB, 1'51, Cartoon by O'Galop.
LE FRUIT DEFENDU 1910, France, Pochoir, 7'30, direction Gaston Velle, Production Pathé. A farmer and his wife are offered a fortune by a genie who has suddenly appeared. All ingredients of a fairy tale are gathered in this wonderfully colored film.
TITANIC 1912, USA, BW, Documentary, 9'41. Visit of the famous ship before the voyage. Try and find the problem...
MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE 1926, USA, BW, 22'44, Slapstick by Léo Mac Carey, with Charley Chase, Vivian Oakland. A husband and his wife both suffering from physical deformities, decide to use plastic surgery without telling the other...
A crazy comedy by Leo Mc Carey - the creator of the Laurel and Hardy duo -, starring slapstick actor Charley Chase.
QUAND MADELON 1917, France, Tinted, Song, 3'33 by Roger Lion, Production Hebdo Film with Pierre Etchepare and Rachel Devirys.