Clown

A pioneering effort in bringing shadow puppetry to the cinema.

In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, believing that he would be comfortable in an armchair, s…

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

Ko-Ko the Clown's hijinks with a magic powder.

Ko-Ko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-contr…

Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown.

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

A riotous comedy of social errors, as absurd as a butler's whiskers.

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girl…

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

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 maiden gets herself into numerous embarrassing complicati…

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man s a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and beco…

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.