History of a Crime
Histoire d'un crime
France
1901
5 Min
Black and White
1.33:1
Silent
Synopsis
A story in six scenes. A thief sneaks into an office where a banker is asleep. The banker is killed by the thief who robs the safe. Later in a café the police arrest the thief and take him to the morgue where he is confronted with the body of the banker. In his cell, he remembers his past life. The priest arrives with officials and they escort him from the cells. He is prepared for the guillotine and executed. —BFI
Director
Ferdinand Zecca
Ferdinand Zecca (1864 in Paris – March 23, 1947 in Saint-Mandé was an early French film director.
Zecca was a cafe entertainer, playing the cornet, before switching to film in his mid-30s. His first film credit, Le Muet mélomane (1899), was the film version of a musical fantasy which he and a colleague named Charlus performed in Parisian cafés at the time.
At the Paris World Fair (Exposition Universelle) in 1900, French film manufacturer, Charles Pathé, hired Zecca to assist him in setting up his pavilion. Zecca did so well that Pathé hired him as assistant to the director of his film factory in Vincennes.
Between 1900 and 1907, Zecca directed or supervised hundreds of Pathé films. After Pathé bought the rights to Star films, Zecca started editing George Melies’ films. He also acted, produced, and on occasion wrote films. He co-directed La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ (1905), which with a length of 44 minutes was one of the first feature-length films about… read more
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