Ferdinand Zecca Movies

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...

A peasant refuses to help a poor old woman to carry a bundle of wood. The old woman transforms to a beautiful fairy seated in a magnificent chariot...

Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet...

A man with some sense of intestinal urgency needs to find the right door at a railroad station. He chooses... the wrong door.

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

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

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.

Depicting well-known incidents in the life of Jesus Christ, this milestone of early cinema won world fame, huge audiences and a screen life of...

Behind the elderly husband's back, the lovers kiss and go off together. But is he unaware of their actions. No! So she swears that her husband is mad...

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,...

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 "Plongeur...

A delightful and typical farce film, ending with the usual Gallic chase.

An opium smoker intoxicated by this poison, falls asleep and dreams that he is in prison.

Two men get into a knife fight, in a Corsican tavern, and one of them kills another and escapes. He takes refuge in his house but escapes when the...

Reproduction of the terrible catastrophe which annihilated the town of St. Peter on May 8, 1902.

The opening of this remarkable and mysterious film brings into view a scene in a parlor, with two servants discussing the easiest way to hang four...

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

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes...

A retired Nintendo champion comes to terms with his broken Nintendo Entertainment System in Louisville, Kentucky in 2005.