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Post No Bills

18961 minFrance
Comedy

Synopsis

A wall marked with a prohibition on posting bills attracts two competing billposters. Each tries to cover the other's work, and the dispute escalates until the return of a guard sends them running. Authority arrives too late to stop the quarrel and finds someone else to blame.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
1:14
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

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No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Georges Méliès · Public domain

DirectorsGeorges Méliès

Historical context

This early Méliès comedy builds its action around a street regulation and the practical struggle to ignore it. The gag depends on movement and rivalry within a simple, continuous setting.

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