Étienne Arnaud Movies

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade. This film, which has been mistakenly attributed to Alice Guy (she married and moved to the United States in March, 1907), was shot by Etienne Arnaud on August 12th, according to the director's own, preserved notes.

This film presents some of the principal episodes in the life of Christopher Columbus, including the discovery of America. Here we see the meeting with Queen Isabella of Spain and her promise to fit out a fleet. The next scene gives one an idea of the Spanish galleons at sea. Months seemed to have...

A young woman's involuntary head twitch is misinterpreted, as she and her husband are pursued around Paris by an ever-growing group of adoring men.

An early Gaumont short.

A girl is given an electrical charge, which causes metal objects to be attracted to her.

Women turn into roses in this hand-coloured nitrate short from Gaumont.

Criminals go on strike in protest at their treatment by the authorities, to the distress of the police and magistrates who find they have nothing to do.