Gaston Velle Movies

A couple perform a acrobatic dance.

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

The town-crier summons the inhabitants of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that...

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

Harlequin is walking in a garden with Columbine. As he moves away to the distance and leaves her on her own, Mephisto appears, from inside a well,...

A young woman becomes pregnant and attempts to provide for her child after the father leaves her.

A couple performs the Ruffian's Dance.

This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of...

As soon as his back is turned, Columbine is making out with Harlequin. So when he catches them at it, Gaston Séverin as Pierrot strikes her as...

Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery.

Under cover of a disguise, Santa approaches Saint-Anthony's hut and, via various tricks, sets out to try his faith. Will good triumph over evil?

A sorcerer conjures an old witch and instructs her to seek a maiden. Said maiden is assigned with the task to lure a young traveler inside the...

The first cinematographic adaptation of the infamous Count Cagliostro. The alchemist Athlotas foretells that his student, Cagliostro, will meet a...

"Danced at the Casino de Paris by the Elks and their Indian troop."

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....

A prestidigitator, one of the best, is about to perform a number of illusions and brings to his aid a pack of playing cards. He selects the King of...

A magician shows tricks with money.

The stages that a caterpillar goes through, from larvae to chrysalis, to become a butterfly.

A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.

A merchant is giving a demonstration of his lifelike automatons to a bedazzled customer. Could these "larger than life" clockwork figures look too...