Societe Generale Des Cinematographes Eclipse Movies

The homeless Polycarpe steals a rifle from some careless society sportsmen and goes on a mindless shooting spree. (MoMA)

An animation where real life objects turn into animations.

An Émile Cohl animation short.

Jeanne Doré becomes the accomplice of her son Jacques who unfortunately commits a crime to help his mistress, Fanny, find money.

"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.

French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.

To the rhythm of a frenzied choreography, acrobatic matches come to life on a black background. Leaving their matchbox, they line the film in...

Artheme takes his elderly uncle for a walk in his wheelchair, but abandons the invalid in the woods overnight when he spots a pretty girl. (MoMA)

When Pierre Dormain and his wife die in a train disaster, the custody of their children Simon and Dédée is transferred to their uncle...

Artheme is fascinated when he sees a conjurer do some simple tricks with a magic wand, and so he steals it, proceeding to change a horse into a...

The film begins with a shot of Wilbur Wright starting the engine; an unidentified assistant (quite likely his brother, Orville) is seen at the front...

Charles Servaes as Polycarpe becomes an inspector of sort; he goes around measure the length of women's skirts in Paris to make sure they don't...

The cyclist is dispatched upon an important errand, and his humorous and alarming adventures by the way form the subject of this series. Misadventure...

Arthème decides to become a film projectionist.

Charles Servaes finds a coin on the ground and takes possession. When he tries to use it to pay for his cab ride, the cabbie says it's counterfeit....

Accident-prone Polycarpe wreaks havoc on a construction site—a popular location for so many early film comedies.

A dog causes a man to get chased.

The sugarcane industry in Argentina: the factory, the train, the workers' houses, the Indigenous workers.