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The Woes of Roller Skaters

19087 minFrance
Comedy

Synopsis

A display of roller skating sets off a chain of imitation and mishaps. The police become part of the joke when objects they confiscate offer temptations of their own.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
6:57
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

DirectorsGeorges Méliès

Historical context

The short belongs to Méliès's comedies of contagious movement, in which spectators cannot resist copying a performance. Its treatment of the police turns authority into another source of disorder.

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