Georges Hatot Movies

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

Soldiers ambush a house.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

A balcony courting scene turns into a man being beaten in a sack.

This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.

Staging of the title event.

A man is chased by ten women!

One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

Three goddesses, Venus, Juno and Minerva each of whom claims to be the most beautiful, call a shepherd "Paris" and ask him to decide the question and...