Émile Cohl Movies

A hybrid animation and live footage film from Émile Cohl about a painter.

Gaston finds a letter to a marquise from his father. He wants her daughter to charm the unsuspecting Gaston out of his fear of marriage. Gaston plays...

A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under...

Snookums Newlywed makes acquaintance with a dog.

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into...

Émile Cohl uses stop-motion animation to tell about life on the chicken farm.

A female fortuneteller examines the sole of a man's foot to see his future.

Lucien Cazalis is very excited to be working for a bank. His first assignment is to go to a town and collect a debt. When he arrives, his eccentric...

Newlywed buys a camera and attempts to photograph the kid.

Émile Cohl produced independently an animated series titled "Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés". There were four series of these...

A man believes to have scared his perpetually agitated mother-in-law to death and goes out to buy her a nice wreath.

This subject presents a remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very...

Jobard receives a note from a secret admirer and goes to a cafe to meet her. However, not knowing what she looks like, he mistakes other woman for...

For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the land of puppets. A fickle...

A delightfully pleasing and beautifully hand-colored series of panoramic views, giving the history of the fan. A large ostrich feather fan opens and...

Lucien Cazalis sees a young woman and falls instantly in love. He volunteers to carry her trunk to her apartment, where he kneels, grinning in front...

Dada has made arrangements to go to a fancy dress ball, and has secured a wonderful costume.

A lighthearted animated history of transport.

This time the trouble is with Snookums and the telephone, and his father has a real struggle to satisfy him.

Elegant, monocled Lucien Cazalis sees women working on the streets of Paris, and will not have it! Unlike most male chauvinist pigs, he doesn't...