Author Archive: Retro

A rich and miserable motion picture studio owner and veteran of the Great War, has for years lived with sorrow and bitterness after losing his wife to influenza. He is helped by a poor family and learns there is more to life than his sorrow and his money, Frank Georges learns the Truth. A dramatic comedy produced in pantomime.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

The theft of an important document from the ambassador’s residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.

Undersea adventures in a submarine by a dreaming fisherman who encounters mystical underwater creatures at odds with him. A parody on Jules Verne’s novel.

Ponchinella the servant [called “Harlequin” in the English language version] rescues his girlfriend from a gang of decadent aristocrats, who have transformed her into a mechanical doll.

Two youths unharness a man’s donkey, letting the cart tip up, and the pumpkins inside roll down the street. The owner and his donkey then pursue the pumpkins through a variety of obstacles until they catch up with them.

Based on an early 13th century myth, this short film tells the story of a Jew who is forced to walk throughout eternity having refused water to Christ on his way to Calvary. He falls asleep and sees a vision of himself as a youth, when he refused the water Christ asked of him; he plods on and runs into Satan who beats him with his staff; he makes his way through a frightful storm. On and on he goes, forced to walk through time until the Second Coming.

A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and “get away from it all”. One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film’s leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress. So she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don’t turn out quite the way she planned.