Étienne Arnaud

Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.

Being a tramp is not always a disadvantage. For example when there is a masquerade ball. Indeed wearing flea-ridden rags might just mean having...

Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.

The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is happy to see her daughter in love with an...

Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred between his parents. He leaves the military institute...

A husband, thinking his wife is unfaithful to her, has a confrontational scene with her, which causes her to have a heart attack and die. He sends...

Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of...

The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book.

This subject portrays in a vivid manner the operations of a puppet in his efforts to see the sights.

A girl is given an electrical charge, which causes metal objects to be attracted to her.

When a bully steals their ball, a kind war veteran lends the saddened children a helping hand. And a leg or two…

Because he found a box washed up by the sea holding unknown contents, a poor and despised fisherman and his daughter are suddenly courted by everyone...

The history of the fan.

A young woman's involuntary head twitch is misinterpreted, as she and her husband are pursued around Paris by an ever-growing group of adoring men.

An early Gaumont short.

Criminals go on strike in protest at their treatment by the authorities, to the distress of the police and magistrates who find they have nothing to...

The famous pianist Tenorini has moved into the neighbourhood. He plays a song (a spring waltz from "Alexander's Ragtime Band") on the piano; it is...

Mozart feels compelled to finish a final requiem as he fears death is quickly approaching. Although the doctor has specifically ordered Mozart not to...

This film presents some of the principal episodes in the life of Christopher Columbus, including the discovery of America. Here we see the meeting...

Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in...

A young woman tells her parents and fiance (in flashback) about the recent sinking of the Titanic and her experiences as a passenger during the...

A gust of wind leads a man on a merry chase through the city, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake as he pursues his errant hat.

"Alice Guy-Blaché liked Feuillade's scripts, and one of them, Le coup de vent, was filmed by Etienne Armaud in 1905. Two years later, Alice...