Georges Hatot Movies

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

Soldiers ambush a house.

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

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

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.

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

Soldiers try to defend themselves inside of a crumbling shack.

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

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

A man does a practical joke on a chestnut vendor.

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

Staging of the title event.

With contraband strapped to the backs of their dogs, smugglers set off to cross the Spanish-French border. Having been spied upon and betrayed to...

Félicien Trewey mimes Pierrot being harassed in his sleep by a fly.

Film adaptation of the famous French folktale by Georges Hatot.

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