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The Inn Where No Man Rests
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Wikipedia article
'L'Auberge du bon repos', sold in the United States as 'The Inn Where No Man Rests' and in Britain as 'The Inn of "Good Rest"', is a 1903 French short silent comedy film by Georges Mlis. Set in an inn, the film addresses the state of the drunken mind with light heartedness.
Production
'The Inn Where No Man Rests' is an expanded version of an earlier Mlis film, 'The Bewitched Inn' (1897). The Moon and a manic chase, as featured in the film, are both common motifs in Mlis's work. As usual for his films, the chase here is circular, within a single set; however, Mlis did eventually try the linear, multi-scene chase format of his contemporaries (such as Ferdinand Zecca and Lucien Nonguet) in his film 'A Desperate Crime'.
Mlis himself plays the traveler in the film. The table and pendulum are animated using stage machinery; other objects are pulled or suspended using wire, and additional effects are worked using substitution splices.
'The Inn Where No Man Rests' was sold by Mlis's Star Film Company and is numbered
465469 in its catalogues.
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