ROBINET AVIATEUR
Comic film / Italy / 1911 / 3’26 / Production Ambrosio / With Marcel Fabre as Robinet
Robinet launches out into space conquest in a self-designed device.

 

WILBUR WRIGHT AND HIS FLYING MACHINE
Newsreel / France 1908 / 3’04 / Production Eclipse
One day, airplane pioneer Wilbur Wright had the idea to take a film camera on board for the first time in the world... Please fasten your seat belts!

 

MUM’S THE WORD
Slapstick / United States 1926 / 26’42 / Production Hal Roach - Pathe Exchange
Director Leo McCarey / Starring Charley Chase and Martha Sleeper
After the success of Mighty Like A Moose, one of the finest slapstick films of the previous screenings, the Leo McCarey / Charley Chase duo is gathered again for a hilarious comedy, where a big boy pays a surprise visit to his remarried mother...

 

MUSICAL MEMORIES
Cartoon / United States 1935 / 7’09 / Director Dave Fleischer
Grandpa and Grandma, sitting by the fireplace, remember their youth in music.
This animated film, made by Popeye’s and Betty Boop’s creator, was shot in three-dimensional sets and in two-colour Technicolor, a few months before the end of Disney’s exclusive rights on three-colour Technicolor.

 

CELLES QUI S’EN FONT
Tragedy / France / 1930 / 5’43 / Production Isis Film, director Germaine Dulac
With Lilian Constantini, Georges Vallée
This short, unknown film by Germaine Dulac, an endeavor to illustrate two realist songs made famous by French singer Fréhel, does not appear in any filmography.

 

LE BAILLEUR
Comic film / France 1907 / 4’06 / Production Pathé / Director Segundo de Chomon
The misfortunes of a man who cannot help yawning, and thus makes the people around him yawn as well.

 

SPEECH BY MUSSOLINI
Documentary / United States / 1927 / 1’20 / Production Fox
In spring 1927, Fox designed the first sound recordings on location, thanks to the Movietone device. Mussolini went along with the experiment and immortalized a series of speeches for the screen, which would greatly impress the audience of these first talkies. In one speech particularly, he made a declaration of friendship to the American people...

 

LES PARENTS TERRIBLES
Comedy / France 1935 / 23’ / Production Celta Films / Director Robert Bibal
With Jean TISSIER, Marcel VALLEE, Simone CERDAN, Serge GRAVE, André BERTOU
Toto, a boy whose parents are about to divorce, is fed up with living alternately with his father or mother. In complicity with his grandfather who is a physician, he pretends to have appendicitis. Summoned to their son’s bedside, the parents meet again and make their peace with one another.

 

IT’S A GIFT
Slapstick / United States 1923 / 12’40 / Production Hal Roach – Pathe
Director Hugh Fay / With Harry « Snub » Pollard
A mad inventor designs a product to replace gasoline. Meanwhile, we discover all his crazy inventions to make our everyday life easier.

 

BUSTER KEATON CANDID CAMERA
United States / 1959 / 5’35
A sketch where a hidden camera films Buster Keaton playing a hoax on people in a restaurant. Slapstick gags galore!

 

IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE
Cartoon / United States 1931 / 6’12 / Production Fleischer Studios
Director Dave Fleischer
Johnnie has got a wonderful automobile. When he takes his girlfriend for a ride, it ends up with songs... A precursory karaoke, where the toons bounce up and down on the lyrics.

 

MA HE’S MAKING EYES AT ME
Documentary / United States 1925 / 1’36
In the context of his experiments to develop the sound system in film, Theodore Case shot a music-hall artist interpreting a jazz tune, Ma He’s Making Eyes At me. With one particularity: it is a real duck, put under his arm, that sings the chorus!