The Big Swallow
Un homme, irrité par la présence d'un photographe, l'avale.
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Sam Dalton
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⭐ 5.8The Kiss in the Tunnel
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⭐ 5.4The Countryman and the Cinematograph
A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.
⭐ 7.2L'Homme à la tête en caoutchouc
Dans un laboratoire, un homme en blouse blanche installe sur une table une tête coupée qui ressemble à la sienne comme deux gouttes d’eau. La branchant à un tuyau en caoutchouc, lui-même relié à un soufflet, en quelques coups de pompe, il la fait gonfler puis dégonfler. Il appelle son assistant pour qu’il manipule à son tour la tête gonflable; celui-ci la fait tant gonfler qu' elle finit par exploser.
⭐ 5.8Histoire d'un crime
A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.
⭐ 5.7An Extraordinary Cab Accident
A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk saying good-by to his companion. The horse and cart flatten him and continue on, out of the camera's stationary range. The cop runs after the cab, the woman dashes to the body. The cop brings back the driver; is the victim dead?
⭐ 4.6Ladies' Skirts Nailed to a Fence
Two women in long skirts, wearing hats, and carrying umbrellas, gossip beside a fence. Two men on the other side of the fence reach through from underneath and nail the women's skirts to the boards. Off the men run leaving the women to discover their fate. What will they do?
⭐ 7.9Le Voyage dans la Lune
Lors d'un colloque d'astronomie, le professeur Barbenfouillis propose à ses confrères d'organiser une expédition sur la Lune. Son idée est de s'y faire envoyer à l'aide d'un obus spatial qui sera propulsé au moyen d'un canon géant. Le lancement réussit et les six savants embarqués découvrent que la lune est habitée par une population locale, les Sélénites, et sont faits prisonniers.