Maurice Vinot Movies

A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.

Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears. Of course, the child is miserable even though he has everything in the world but after a weekend trip at his poor mother's house, the child realizes that money isn't everything and he has to convince...

A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.

A silent short film attributed to Louis Feuillade. This film from 1909 by Gaumont is currently lost. Do not confuse it with Pathé's film from 1905 of the same name (Les Voleurs d'enfants), which is available to watch on YouTube.

A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.

This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane old coot, he runs amok acting out his war-time heroics--smashing and throwing everything in the room!

This darling compilation of Feuillade's 'Le Printemps' series embodies the joyous feeling of dancing out of winter into the spring.

Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

Burlesque: the champion describes his race with such conviction that everyone is carried away with him.

Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.

Leonce works at the Gaumont studios as star actor and his wife suspects him of being unfaithful. She finds ladies' hair on his coat, fan letters in his pocket...

Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Directed by Louis Feuillade.