Slapstick Summer Series: Key Foundation Cornerstone | The Bricklayers (1905)

Alice Guy's Les Maçons provides plenty of comedic action, and with slapsticky coppers pre-dating those of Keystone by a decade. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1649371/

Slapstick Summer Series: Outside The Tableau | Chimney Sweep (1906)

Terribly slow beginning, but notable for the chase sequence beginning at the 8:10 mark and featuring some of the very few external shots by Méliès.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228447/

Slapstick Summer Series: Timeless | A Very Fine Lady (1908)

A beautiful woman causes mayhem with weak-willed men (some things never change). Add a laugh track and Louis Feuillade's Une dame vraiment bien could be a modern "Hidden Camera" TV-show. But what's up with the ending?!?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208539/

Slapstick Summer Series: A Step Back | The Runaway Horse (1908)

Of historical importance for being among the group of early chase films. Not the best of the bunch - old-fashioned pacing takes much of the blame for this - but not bad either. Louis J. Gasnier's Le cheval emballé also contains a unique reverse-action shot, which may have been the first of its kind used during a chase sequence.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257474/

Slapstick Summer Series: Dark Comedy | The Thieving Hand (1908)

A bit macabre, a bit surreal, and quite clever -- The Thieving Hand, directed by J. Stuart Blackton. We also find out what Thing was up to before he became so helpful to The Addams Family.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288252/