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The Tramp and the Mattress Makers

19064 minFrance
Comedy

Synopsis

A drunken man falls asleep inside an unfinished mattress while its makers take a break. Sewn inside without being noticed, he wakes and turns an ordinary delivery into a frighteningly animated object moving through the street.

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Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
4:08
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 · Georges Méliès · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsGeorges Méliès

Behind the scenes

The short ends with a toast to the audience and an unusually prominent multilingual intertitle. Its physical comedy relies mainly on performance, with substitution cutting as the principal cinematic trick.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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