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Autour d'une cabine

18941 minFrance
AnimationComedy

Synopsis

Swimmers, a couple and an intrusive onlooker cross paths beside seaside bathing cabins. A hesitant dive and an attempt to peek into a changing hut lead to small comic reversals. The beach scene closes with a boat whose sail announces that the show is over.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
1:52
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Émile Reynaud · Public domain

DirectorsÉmile Reynaud

Behind the scenes

Émile Reynaud created the animation from hundreds of individually painted images for his Théâtre Optique. It was shown at the Musée Grévin from 1894, placing its projected moving drawings in the period immediately before commercially established photographic cinema.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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