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Htel lectrique
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Wikipedia article
'Htel lectrique' (also released in Spanish as ; ) is a 1908 silent French comedy-fantasy film directed by Segundo de Chomn and produced by Path Frres. The short appears to be inspired by the 1907 American short film 'The Haunted Hotel'.
Plot
Laure and Bertrand arrive at the Electric Hotel, where a control board allows inanimate objects to come to life. For most of the film, the effects are used to perform tasks such as polishing shoes, styling hair and putting away luggage, to the two guests' great pleasure. At the end, a drunken concierge erratically throws switches that cause the system to go haywire, sending all of the hotel's furniture into a jumbled, chaotic mess.
Background
The film displays one of the earliest uses of stop motion animation in history, though it is not de Chomn's first try at this technique: his 1906 film, 'Le thtre de Bob', uses animated puppets. However, 'Htel lectrique' is also an early use of pixilation. hair appears to brush itself, one of the first uses of stop-motion animation in film.
Cast
* Segundo de Chomn as Bertrand
* Julienne Mathieu as Laure
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References
3. Smith, Dominic (2019). "The Electric Hotel". Published by Sarah Crichton Books; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. .
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