Georges Hatot Movies

Soldiers ambush a house.

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.

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

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

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

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

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

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.

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

A man is chased by ten women!

A man does a practical joke on a chestnut vendor.

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...

With contraband strapped to the backs of their dogs, smugglers set off to cross the Spanish-French border. Having been spied upon and betrayed to...