Georges Hatot Movies

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...

Staging of the title event.

A balcony courting scene turns into a man being beaten in a sack.

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

A man does a practical joke on a chestnut vendor.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

Agents chase down rooftop criminals, and after a series of grotesque twists and turns, they finally get their hands on them.

This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.

Soldiers ambush a house.

The scene takes place outside a café. Two workers are desperate to be served drinks, and the owner is forced to call in a policeman, who has...

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.