A Roadside Inn (1906)
- Original title
- L'hôtel des voyageurs de commerce
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- comedy film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 3 min
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A hotel guest gets very drunk and causes chaotic trouble in two connected rooms. The film uses visual effects and stage tricks to show the slapstick results.
comediclivelyplayfulshortfast-pacedslapstickvisual trickerylighthearted
What happens
A Roadside Inn (French: L'Hôtel des voyageurs de commerce ou les Suites d'une bonne cuite, literally "The Hotel for Traveling Salesmen, or the Results of Being Very Drunk") is a 1906 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 843–845 in its catalogues. Méliès plays the drunk hotel guest in the film, which uses stage machinery, pyrotechnics, and substitution splices for its effects. The distinctive film set, divided in two parts to show two rooms, is similar to one Méliès employed in his later film Tunneling the English Channel (1907). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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