Ferdinand Zecca Movies

To fill their jars with water, a group of women gathered around the well. At one point comes Samaria, a woman known for her bad temper. Jesus appears...

Early silent adaptation of the fairy-tale Puss In Boots.

A young woman receives a message, and hurriedly leaves home. But the message was a trick to lure her into a trap, where she is assaulted and killed....

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet...

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.

Max causes havoc when he joins other skaters on a frozen lake.

An honest worker is made redundant, but he will solve his problems by marrying the employer's daughter.

An opium smoker intoxicated by this poison, falls asleep and dreams that he is in prison.

A trick film using the reverse effect.

An oppressive droning score makes this rendering of the Faust legend quite disturbing to watch. The film itself consists of a number of impressive...

It is winter and a couple invites an old woman to eat. The old woman then becomes a fairy and makes the spring appears.

Apparently inspired by the antics of Harry Houdini, Slippery Jim opens in the office of a police commissioner to whom a rather cocky villain is...

To the modern viewer, it may seem peculiar that there are several movies in which a man sneaks a kiss off a young woman in a darkened railway car,...

Reproduction of the terrible catastrophe which annihilated the town of St. Peter on May 8, 1902.

Charles Prince, his gift of a posy spurned in favor of a rival's expensive ring, goes to enlist in the Balkan Wars. Sort of. That is, he goes to...

Some naughty scenes from a balcony.

Jesus enters the temple while the merchants are selling their wares. Jesus overturns the tables of the money lenders by showing them their error.

A diver jumps into a body of water-- and then comes right back out! This film should not be confused with Segundo de Chomón's remake "Plongeur...

Old gentleman stretches himself on the long seat of a French railway car, after placing numerous bundles in the rack above him, and also in the rack...