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- Six films by photographer Paul Nadar in 1896 were combined into a program in 1970 by the Cinemathèque Francaise. It contains four dance routines and two Paris-based actualities.
- On a stage in front of a painted background, Lil Hawthorne sings a popular music hall song.
- A Pierrot pantomime devotes itself to awakening sleepers by creating unexpected scenes.
- Shipwreck scene from 'His Majesty's Theatre' production.
- A man sings to his wife, Anna, as they prepare to go on a picnic with their daughter. They picnic in a park by a river.
- The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- By 1907, sound experimenter Georges Mendel had devised a system to assure synchronization by mechanically interlocking phonograph and projector. The film was shot to playback but amplification of the acoustic recording remained a significant limitation. Here, M. Note of the Paris Opera sings "La Marseillaise" in 1908.
- In the first scene, a gentleman invites a lady to a ball, in the second they are dancing after the ball in a restaurant - slightly drunk - with the resulting consequences for the restaurant.
- In this beautiful film we see the great Don Juan in his many escapades and in his conquests over his rivals in his love affairs. The first picture shows him at a grand reception, overhearing the girl he is in love with making an engagement with his hated rival, telling him to come to her when she gives a signal from the window. Our hero lies in wait the next night, follows his victim, heavily masked, and approaches him as he is waiting to be called by the girl. They engage in a controversy and end by fighting a duel, in which Don Juan kills his rival. When the maiden gives the signal for her lover to come to her, Don Juan goes in instead and makes ardent love to her before she discovers his identity. When he tells her of his nefarious crime and forces his attentions on her, she seizes a dagger and plunges it into her body, while he escapes. The next picture shows her after she has recovered, and we see her father placing her in a convent, to be out of her wooer's reach. Don Juan and a friend come and, summoning the keys, they make their way to the girl's apartment and carry her away to his home. The father calls at the convent and discovers the girl is gone, traces her to Don Juan's house and appears as the young man is making ardent love to his daughter. Infuriated at his boldness, he denounces him and demands the surrender of the girl. They fight a duel, in which the father is killed, thus adding another death to the record of the so-called young hero. We next see the girl at her father's tomb, when she is approached by her old lover, and he, in his gallant and winning way, is soon forgiven by the maiden for the sorrow he caused her. He takes her back to his apartment and is making love to her when the ghost of her dead father appears and, denouncing Don Juan, orders him under pain of death to cease his attentions to the young lady. We see Don Juan cringing at the feet of the father and, when he raises his head, the figure has disappeared. The last picture shows us Don Juan at the tomb where the statue of the father has come to life and is denouncing him and showing him the vision of the funeral of his daughter's lover whom he killed, and the daughter passing him with scorn. Don Juan is seen begging forgiveness for his many deeds when he disappears in a flame, while the young lady comes peacefully to place a wreath on her father's tomb.