Ferdinand Zecca Movies

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...

A magician performs tricks with a chicken and eggs.

Behind the elderly husband's back, the lovers kiss and go off together. But is he unaware of their actions. No! So she swears that her husband is mad...

A man is chased by ten women!

At an island penal institution, new prisoners are brought in one-by-one, and introduced to the harsh realities of prison life. They are put in...

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes.

A man with some sense of intestinal urgency needs to find the right door at a railroad station. He chooses... the wrong door.

Short directed by Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca.

Two men get into a knife fight, in a Corsican tavern, and one of them kills another and escapes. He takes refuge in his house but escapes when the...

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

Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor. After encountering numerous...

A boy armed with itching powder makes a nuisance of himself, spraying everyone in sight.

The French short film recreates key moments from the Russian revolution of 1905 in Odessa.

Short film by Pathé frères released in 1905

Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some...

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

A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot...

During a strike, several workers are killed in a confrontation. The wife of one of them kills the factory owner. At her trial, the owner's son asks...

The opening of this remarkable and mysterious film brings into view a scene in a parlor, with two servants discussing the easiest way to hang four...

A political quarrel between two men that ends in laughter.