Gaston Velle Movies

An Italian movie about Othello.

This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of...

A sorcerer conjures an old witch and instructs her to seek a maiden. Said maiden is assigned with the task to lure a young traveler inside the...

Short Pathe Brothers film

This is in poor condition and the hand colouring is a little rough around the edges compared to the others, but it contains some impressive...

A merchant is giving a demonstration of his lifelike automatons to a bedazzled customer. Could these "larger than life" clockwork figures look too...

A prestidigitator, one of the best, is about to perform a number of illusions and brings to his aid a pack of playing cards. He selects the King of...

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

The first cinematographic adaptation of the infamous Count Cagliostro.

The stages that a caterpillar goes through, from larvae to chrysalis, to become a butterfly.

A charming example of the Pathe stencil system of colour films, also using superimposition.

Little Bob stages his mechanical toys in a series of charming performances.

Short film showcasing a circus clown act.

As soon as his back is turned, Columbine is making out with Harlequin. So when he catches them at it, Gaston Séverin as Pierrot strikes her as...

A couple performs the Ruffian's Dance.

After a quarrel Pedro walks out of the cafe leaving his fiancée (Stacia Napierkowska) alone. Heartbroken, she visits the flower garden and...

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....

A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.

A devil puts a woman into a boiling cauldron in a fiery cave.

This has more of a clear narrative than most of the films in the set although it’s still quite odd and random compared to today’s films....