Around a Cabin (1894)

Original title

Autour d’une cabine

Directed by

Émile Reynaud

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

2 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 67 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1894 French short animated film follows a couple at the seaside who get into minor comic mishaps around a cabin. It was made from hundreds of hand-painted images and shown with Emile Reynaud's invention.

whimsicalplayfullightheartedquaintsillyhistoric

What happens

Autour d'une cabine ("Around A Cabin"), original full title Autour d'une cabine ou Mésaventures d'un copurchic aux bains de mer ("Around a Cabin or Misadventures of a Couple at the Seaside"), is an 1894 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud. It is an animated film made of 636 individual images hand painted in 1893. The film showed off Emile's invention, the Théâtre Optique. It was shown at the Musée Grévin from December 1894 until March 1900. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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