Set in a drawing room decorated in Louis XIII style, a magician makes dancers appear and disappear from a hexagonal box that resembles a huge cigar box. The film forms part of what is known as 'cine...
Girls, nymphs, fairies and demons appear and disappear as they dance and interact with each other in front of a backdrop featuring large flowers on a black background. This film forms part of what i...
Dressed in a checked suit and smoking a pipe, a pickpocket is chased by two policemen. He gives his pursuers the slip by performing a variety of magic tricks, such as disappearing or changing form, so...
During the First World War, Vickers manufactured munitions and war materials needed for combat. In the workshops, shrapnel and shells are manufactured by workers, while women and young girls assemble ...
Set inside a room made to look like an art studio, a sculptor works the clay prepared by his assistant onto a frame hanging on the wall, and deftly moulds a series of faces depicting a variety of char...
Gringoire and his wife, Claudine, have an argument and Gringoire storms out of the house. Claudine follows him but cannot persuade him to return. Peevishly, he sits down in the middle of a field where...
Laya Films documentary produced during the Spanish Civil War which aims to show the effects of war on the Spanish civilian population. It begins with images showing rural life, with farmers cultivatin...
Married couple, Laure and Bertrand, arrive at a hotel where everything is automated through the use of control panels. Everything is working fine until an inebriated hotel employee begins to fiddle wi...