Émile Cohl Movies

This time the trouble is with Snookums and the telephone, and his father has a real struggle to satisfy him.

Dada has made arrangements to go to a fancy dress ball, and has secured a wonderful costume.

Snookums Newlywed makes acquaintance with a dog.

A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under...

A man believes to have scared his perpetually agitated mother-in-law to death and goes out to buy her a nice wreath.

Newlywed buys a camera and attempts to photograph the kid.

A delightfully pleasing and beautifully hand-colored series of panoramic views, giving the history of the fan. A large ostrich feather fan opens and...

This subject presents a remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very...

Gaston finds a letter to a marquise from his father. He wants her daughter to charm the unsuspecting Gaston out of his fear of marriage. Gaston plays...

In a hotel corridor, two pairs of shoes are left in front of two neighboring doors to be shined by the bellboy. The owners of the shoes don't know...

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into...

Three girls seeking to have their fortunes told invite a witch over. When the girls' father offends the witch, she puts a hex on him and his matches.

A female fortuneteller examines the sole of a man's foot to see his future.

Jobard receives a note from a secret admirer and goes to a cafe to meet her. However, not knowing what she looks like, he mistakes other woman for...

Lucien Cazalis first his maid and hires a new one. When she puts on an apron, he realizes how pretty she is. What's a Frenchman to do? However, when...

In Le cheveu délateur, a magician discovers the real identity of another character by the movement of a single hair, that, once animated,...

To the rhythm of a frenzied choreography, acrobatic matches come to life on a black background. Leaving their matchbox, they line the film in...

Émile Cohl uses stop-motion animation to tell about life on the chicken farm.

An animated look at the changing shape of hats through the ages.