Devant (Animated Photographs)

Célèbre magicien, David Devant devient distributeur de films à partir de 1896, en particulier ceux des maisons Méliès et Paul. Il n'existe à ce jour aucun catalogue conservé. La liste ci-après a été reconstituée à partir des annonces publiées dans la presse. Elle reste très incomplète. L'ordre est alphabétique.

1896-1897

  140 Seats for Disposal  
  A Bicycle Lesson  
  A Scene in Paris  
  The American Express Going at Sixty Miles an Hour  
  Arrival of Express/The Arrival of the Paris Express PAUL 
  Arrival of Train
 
  Bathing at Cascaes/Sea Bathing/Surf Bathing at Cascaes PAUL
  Blackfriar's Bridge PAUL
  Boulevard des Italiens  
  Brighton Beach PAUL
  Butterfly Dance  
  The Carnival of Nice (The Longest Picture ever taken)  
  The Cavalry Charge  
  Child Skipping and Playing with Wooden Horses in Garden  
  Children Playing/Children Playing with Dogs  
  Chirgwin's Comicalities  
  Coronation of the Czar at Moscow  
  Cycling Clubs/Cycling, Hyde Park  
  The Czar and Suite-Entry into Paris  
  The Czar's Visit to Paris  
  Devant Conjuring  PAUL 
  Devant's Egg Trick/Mr. Devant Conjuring With an Egge PAUL 
  Devant's Rabbits/Mr. Devant Conjuring With Rabbits PAUL 
  Factory Gates  
  French Market Place  
  Gardener Burning Bad Plants/Gardener Burning Weeds, brillantly Coloured/A Garden Scene-Burning Weeds  
  Gardener Watering/The Joke of the Gardener  
  The Haunted Castle (Startling Photographic Illusions)  
  The Highlanders  
  Ladies' Bathing  
  Ladies Drilling  
  Leaving the Factory  
  Margate Sands  
  Mr. Devant Paper Folding  
  Mr. Maskelyne's Elegant Jugglery with Plates  
  Music Hall Sports, 1896 (Costume Race)/A Comic Costume Race PAUL 
  The Niagara Falls  
  On Brighton Beach  
  Primrose Day, 1897  
  Prince's Derby/The Prince Derby, 1896 PAUL 
  The Prince and Princess of Wales interviewing the Chelsea Veterans  
  The Queen's Diamond Jubilee  
  Railway Train  
  River Scene-The Rescue  
  Rough Sea/Rough Sea on the Cornish Coast   
  Roundabouts at a Fair  
  The Scene at Lord Beaconsfield's Statue  
  Sea Cave on the Coast of Galicia PAUL
  Serpentine Dance, brilliantly Coloured  
  Ship Leagin Pier  
  Smiths at Work  
  St. Paul's Churchyard  
  Start of Motor Car Race, Paris to Marseilles  
  Steamers on the Seine  
  Twin's Tea Party PAUL 
  Tzar and Suite on Way to Versailles  
  Tzar's Cortège on Bois de Boulogne  
  Up the river PAUL 
  The Village Fair  
  Wedding (La Rosiere)/The Wedding of la Rosiere/Wedding Party Leaving Church MÉLIÈS
  Westminster, near Houses of Parliament  
  Whirlpool Rapids  

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