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The Electric Hotel

19088 minFrance
ComedyFantasy

Synopsis

Two guests arrive at a hotel where machinery makes luggage, brushes and other objects attend to their needs. Automated service initially seems effortless. When a drunken attendant interferes with the controls, the same system turns furniture and rooms into chaos.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
9:31
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 · Segundo de Chomón · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsSegundo de Chomón

Behind the scenes

Segundo de Chomón uses stop motion and the animation of live performers to imagine a fully mechanized hotel. The visual comedy depends on services becoming both wonderfully efficient and impossible to control.

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