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L’Arroseur arrosé
(Watering the Waterer)
AKA Le jardinier (The Gardener) in France; The Gardener and the Bad Boy in the USA : [L’Arrosseur arrose], [The Gardener Watered], [The Sprinkler Sprinkled], [Sprinkling the Sprinkler], [Teasing the Gardener], [A Joke on the Gardener], [A Practical Joke on the Gardener], [The Adventures of the Boy and the Garden Hose]
(1895) French
B&W : Short film
Directed by Louis Lumière
Cast: François Clerc, Benoît Duval.
Société Lumière production; distributed by Société Lumière. / Cinematography by Louis Lumière [?] and Francis Doublier on a second version? / Premiere 10 June 1895. / Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 format. / The production was shot at Jardin des Lumière à Lyon Monplasir, 264 cours Gambetta in Lyon, France. There may to be two separate versions of this film, taken at different times, both listed as Lumière film number 99. The second film may be known by the above title and shot in 1896 by Doublier, the original may have been known as Le jardinier and was shot in 1895 by Lumière. Generally thought to be the first film comedy. The first French fiction film.
Comedy.
Survival Status: Print exists.
Keywords: France: Lyon - Gardens - Gardeners - Hats - Hoses - Practical jokes - Water
Listing updated: 24 July 2007.
References: Film viewing : Altman-Sound p. 92; Bardèche-History pp. 5, 7; Bohn-Light pp. xv, 12, 13; Card-Seductive pp. 18-19; Coe-History p. 72; Fell-History pp. 13, 24; Leish-Cinema p. 11; Leyda-Before p. 43; Musser-Emerge pp. 138, 141, 142, 143, 291, 598, 602; Ramsaye-Million pp. 238, 241, 320; Robertson-Guinness p. 8; Shipman-Cinema p. 12; Shirley-Australian p. 9; Sinyard-Silent pp. 10, 11; Slide-Early p. 4 : Other-Trewey.
Home Video: DVD.
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