Ferdinand Zecca Movies

Rendez-vous of Apaches. Bonneteur and pickpocket. Theft at the scramble. Reticle shooter. Shoplifting. Pepper stripper. The coup of Father...

During a strike, several workers are killed in a confrontation. The wife of one of them kills the factory owner. At her trial, the owner's son asks...

Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor. After encountering numerous...

A diver jumps into a body of water-- and then comes right back out! This film should not be confused with Segundo de Chomón's remake of the...

Charles Prince, his gift of a posy spurned in favor of a rival's expensive ring, goes to enlist in the Balkan Wars. Sort of. That is, he goes to...

A tramp who unwittingly starts a fire is chased by a mob of peasants.

In Paris, freed by criminal hands, several barrels roll down an endless slope, dragging everything and everyone in their path.

To the modern viewer, it may seem peculiar that there are several movies in which a man sneaks a kiss off a young woman in a darkened railway car,...

Short film set in ancient Egypt.

Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some...

Apparently inspired by the antics of Harry Houdini, Slippery Jim opens in the office of a police commissioner to whom a rather cocky villain is...

The French short film recreates key moments from the Russian revolution of 1905 in Odessa.

A magician performs tricks with a chicken and eggs.

Jesus enters the temple while the merchants are selling their wares. Jesus overturns the tables of the money lenders by showing them their error.

Old gentleman stretches himself on the long seat of a French railway car, after placing numerous bundles in the rack above him, and also in the rack...

Two monks are seen sitting at a table drinking their beer and smoking their pipes. One has evidently told a funny story judging from their actions....

Stencil-coloured version of Segundo de Chomón's Les roses magiques (1906).

A political quarrel between two men that ends in laughter.