Le Saut à la couverture (1895)

Original title

Le saut à la couverture

Directed by

Louis Lumière

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

41 min

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 65 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people take turns jumping onto a blanket held by others. The short film captures this playful activity in a single static shot.

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What happens

Le Saut à la couverture ("Jumping Onto the Blanket"), also known as Brimade dans une caserne ("Bullying in a barracks"), is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. The film formed part of the first commercial presentation of the Lumière Cinématographe on 28 December 1895 at the Salon Indien, Grand Café, 14 Boulevard des Capuchins, Paris. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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