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Playing Cards (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Playing Cards' is an 1896 French black-and-white silent actuality film by Georges Mlis. It was the first film in Mlis' prolific career, and thus is number one in his Star Film catalogue. It is a remake of Louis Lumire's film 'The Messers. Lumire at Cards', which was released earlier the same year. Along with Georges Mlis himself, his brother Gaston Mlis and daughter Georgette Mlis both appear in the film.
Synopsis
It is afternoon in a French garden. Three men are sitting at a table, two of them playing cards while the third smokes and reads a newspaper. The man who is not playing cards calls over a young girl and has her fetch a woman with a bottle of wine. He proceeds to pour glasses for himself and his friends. After drinking the wine, the man reads a story out of the newspaper, and his friends laugh.
Survival
The film, long presumed lost, was rediscovered after 1981 and included on a home video release in 2008.
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