L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895)

Original title

Arroseur et arrosé

Directed by

Louis Lumière

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

49 min

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 278 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy plays a prank on a gardener by stepping on his hose. When the gardener looks into the nozzle the boy lifts his foot and the gardener gets sprayed.

lightheartedplayfulshortsimpleamusinggag-drivenslapsticklive-action

What happens

L'Arroseur Arrosé (French: [la.ʁo.zœʁ a.ʁo.ze]; also known as The Waterer Watered and The Sprinkler Sprinkled) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent comedy film directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring François Clerc and Benoît Duval. It was first screened on June 10, 1895. It is the earliest known instance of film comedy, the first use of film to portray a fictional story, and the first use of a promotional film poster. The film was originally known as Le Jardinier ("The Gardener") or Le Jardinier et le petit espiègle ("The Gardener and the Little Mischievous"), and is sometimes referred to in English as The Tables Turned on the Gardener, and The Sprinkler Sprinkled. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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