Émile Cohl Movies

A Émile Cohl animated short in The Newlyweds series.

Four customers are having a peaceful game of cards in a quiet café. The atmosphere being heavy, the waiter falls asleep and has an unsettling...

An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic germ which in its growth gives birth to the...

A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to their most burning questions.

A woman becomes slowly visible in front of a black space. She points a wand and spells the word “Bonsoir” in colored letters formed from...

Two nosy neighbors who drill a hole through their wall to spy on the canoodling couple next door get more than they bargained for when the man...

A traveler is welcomed into a fully automated hotel, where no human intervention is required. But the machines malfunction, giving the guest a...

The film presents a drawing room meeting of enthusiastic puzzle workers. One gentleman has a new way of solving his puzzle. He puts a handkerchief...

Watching the dial of a taxi-cab is like a fall on a slippery pavement. It is funny, only when the other fellow suffers.

Papa Newlywed and his lovely wife looked up at their child apprehensively. Yes. Their own precious Snookums was on the warpath again

Jobard cannot seem to smile, no matter how hard he tries. He recruits a doctor to help him with this predicament.

A child painter sells one of his paintings to an adult who appears to be surprised.

When "Snookums" started to cry, Da-da thought it was because there was no milk in the house, and so he started on a run to the nearest store.

A mixture of stop-motion and live action film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals in blackface.

A cut-out animation depicting the Twelve Labours of Hercules.

For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the land of puppets. A fickle...

An Émile Cohl animation short.

A near-abstract animation telling a simple romantic story through drawings almost entirely composed of heart shapes.

Émile Cohl produced independently an animated series titled "Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés". There were four series of these...

A parlor full of bon vivants pass around an enchanted pair of spectacles that “reveal the personality and pleasures of the one who wears...