Léontine Movie Trailers

Rosalie and Her Phonograph Trailer (1911)

17 November 1911

A jolly housekeeper brings new meaning to the notion of “home entertainment” with a handsome new portable phonograph that causes people, furniture, and buildings to rock and roll through the magic of stop-motion animation.

A Hasty Renovation Trailer (1911)

22 September 1911

Léontine helps her pal Rosalie (Sarah Duhamel) race against time to clean up a house after Rosalie’s boss, Baron von Hummen, announces that he and Madame will return home earlier than planned.

The Dranems Trailer (1913)

03 January 1913

Monsieur Dranem cooks, cleans and sews while his militant wife gambols in pantaloons, smokes pipes, drinks pints, plays cards and assaults her cowed spouse.

The New Air Fan Trailer (1911)

14 July 1911

Titine and her family go for a fast-motion bicycle ride while enveloping the whole public sphere in their raging tornado of bodily ventilation.

Léontine's Boat Trailer (1911)

08 September 1911

Léontine cannot resist her desire to sail her new toy boat indoors. She plugs up the drains and turns on the faucets, flooding the house as water rains down through the floorboards and collapses the ceilings.

Léontine Becomes an Errand Girl Trailer (1910)

01 July 1910

The oldest surviving film in the Léontine series, this incomplete escapade features everyone’s favorite “mistress of mayhem” doing what she does best: wreaking total havoc and defying repressive authority.

Léontine on Vacation Trailer (1910)

18 November 1910

What would a vacation be for Titine without hellraising mischief? As a reward for receiving high marks at school, she goes on a peaceful jaunt to the countryside to visit her aunt and uncle.

Léontine Gets Carried Away Trailer (1911)

01 January 1911

Léontine is sent airborne by too many helium balloons and takes a catastrophic joyride across town, while her parents and the townsfolk frantically chase after her.

Rosalie and Léontine Go to the Theatre Trailer (1911)

16 May 1911

Rosalie and Léontine go to the theater and are swept away by big emotions.

Léontine Keeps House Trailer (1912)

01 March 1912

In a last gasp effort to school Titine in domestic labor, her parents entrust her with housesitting. She executes her obligations with catastrophic aplomb, shattering all the dishes in the gesture of cleaning them.

Léontine Pulls the Strings Trailer (1910)

14 August 1910

Hell hath no fury like Léontine with a piece of string! Our favorite mutinous miscreant returns with her weapon of choice, “pulling the strings” as she baits greedy bystanders to snatch at the tempting objects that ever elude their grasps.

Fear of Shadows Trailer (1911)

07 October 1911

In a playful, reflexive take on the familiar “last-minute rescue” formula, a woman and her housekeeper left alone at home miss-read shadows projected from the street outside and fear a violent assault.

Léontine’s Battery Trailer (1910)

01 September 1910

Léontine lights up our lives with an electric battery, electrocuting everyone in her path. Her victims include two old ladies (played by men in drag), dancers at a café, workers on a construction site, a group of lackluster conscripts, and the local police force.

Léontine’s Apprenticeship Trailer (1911)

04 January 1911

It’s high time for tomboy Titine to settle down and learn a useful trade. Instead, she terrorizes any shop owner foolish enough to audition her labor.

Léontine’s Pranks Trailer (1912)

01 February 1912

Yet again, Léontine ignores the well-meaning advice of her mother. She attempts to hang her downstairs neighbor (played by a man in drag) with a rope, which she then uses to attach a bookseller’s kiosk to a moving vehicle.

Léontine, the Troublemaker Trailer (1911)

04 August 1911

Léontine goes on a dish-breaking rampage to protest her parents’ boring rules, so they kick her to the curb.

Love and Music Trailer (1911)