Gaston Velle Movies

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....

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

A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.

A beautiful seductive fairy makes gentle winged creatures appear.

This Gaston Velle movie from 1904 was a fairly venturesome piece of film-making for the era. First, its credits include Jules Verne: his second after...

A man hides his valuables under his mattress before going to sleep, blissfully unaware of the two burglars on his roof.

An old astronomer has been transfixed by a star for a long time. He had but one thought: to travel to it, to declare his love for it! But how? A...

A cook mistakenly throws his kitchen boy into a huge pot while preparing a stew. Distraught, he attempts to make up for his mistake. Alas, Mephisto...

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

Harlequin is walking in a garden with Columbine. As he moves away to the distance and leaves her on her own, Mephisto appears, from inside a well,...

An Italian movie about Othello.

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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...

The town-crier summons the inhabitants of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that...

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 Japanese-set magic show. There is a lot of visual trickery on display, ending with an amazing effect using reverse footage and...

This is a mesmerising little short that employs a peculiar bird’s eye view of a mischievous devil who dances around, performing strange tricks...

Under cover of a disguise, Santa approaches Saint-Anthony's hut and, via various tricks, sets out to try his faith. Will good triumph over evil?

A gentleman having lunch at a hostelry experiences all kinds of mishaps.

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....