Through the Keyhole (1901)

Original title

Par le trou de la serrure

Directed by

Ferdinand Zecca

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

2 min

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A janitor peeps through a keyhole and sees comedic scenes. The film shows what happens when his curiosity gets the better of him.

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What happens

Par le trou de la serrure is a 1901 French silent short comedy film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and distributed in France by Pathé Frères. It was also distributed in the United States under the titles What Is Seen Through a Keyhole and What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor, and in the United Kingdom under the titles What Happened: The Inquisitive Janitor and Peeping Tom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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