Ferdinand Zecca Movies

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...

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

A happy family is brought to ruin when the father starts drinking.

A trick film using the reverse effect.

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

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....

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

Stencil-coloured version of Segundo de Chomón's Les roses magiques (1906).

A political quarrel between two men that ends in laughter.

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

Jean Clédat, a young sculptor, has fallen in love with Gabrielle Normand, a painter. Jean's father, who expected him to perform his art in his...

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

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

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...

The Clever Baker, shows a not so clever baker baking.

A magician performs tricks with a chicken and eggs.

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...