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Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.

Young playboy Charles Grandet is sent to live with his miserly uncle after his father loses his fortune. He and his cousin Eugenie fall in love, but his uncle sends him away and tries to arrange a marriag…

Benitez pretends to be a toreador and his friends decide to pull a prank on him.

Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he e…

A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).

A mounted Mexican president poses for the camera.

On the terrace of a villa, a violinist, two pianists and a singer are playing, until they are interrupted by a false note.

A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two ma…

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

A young boy from Brooklyn discovers he's heir to a British earldom and must win over his cold, aristocratic grandfather while navigating the challenges of his newfound noble status.

When a group of diners boards a carriage, one man is left behind and chases after them on foot.

In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.

1922 version of Walt Disney's Cinderella

The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…

Graehme, Ned Stewart's father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to avenge his father, but got captured and sent to the long journey to death "la longue traverse".

The heir of a rich family puts up a notice, where he says he is looking for a wife. As a result, he will soon find himself fleeing from a dozen women.

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the enemy is about to overrun this position.

A group of people perform local dances and prepare to have lunch outdoors in Playa Ancha.

Mr. and Mrs. Gyurkovics have a dozen children the oldest of which, the twins Géza and Bandi, just preparing for their matriculation examination. When graduation day has come Géza refuses to set up but tak…