Ferdinand Zecca
Director · 1864 – 1943 · Paris, France
Ferdinand Zecca (19 February 1864 – 23 March 1947) was a pioneer French film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He worked primarily for the Pathé company, first in artistic endeavors then in administration of the internationally based company.
Movies12
Movie6.3DocumentaryTribute to Segundo de Chomón. Semi-documentary featuring short films and appearances by actors who explain his works, such as Inma de Santis, Jesús Gúzman, and Ana Mariscal.
Cinematógrafo 1900
1979 · 3 votes
Movie7.8ComedyFantasyA trick film using the reverse effect.
Movie5.7DocumentaryNicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
Paris 1900
1948 · 10 votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryComedyThe extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.
El hombre que quiso ser Segundo
2014 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DocumentaryWith family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture, threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War.
Movie5.8DramaCrimeA convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.
Movie6.5ComedyTo the modern viewer, it may seem peculiar that there are several movies in which a man sneaks a kiss off a young woman in a darkened railway car, all produced in the first few years of the motion picture.
- Movie6.6FantasyComedy
A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth. When he wakes, still drunk, he is in his apartment.
Movie10.0ComedyCharles Prince, his gift of a posy spurned in favor of a rival's expensive ring, goes to enlist in the Balkan Wars. Sort of. That is, he goes to Pathe Freres and talks them into making a movie about him enlisting (and fighting) in the Balkans. That'll teach her!
Movie4.9Science FictionA man flies his plane "Fend l'Air" over Paris.
- Movie10.0Fantasy
On the theater stage, a magician makes appear and disappear his partners
Movie6.0ComedyA magician performs tricks with a chicken and eggs.