Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (1896)

Directed by

William Kennedy Dickson

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1 min

Rating

4.4 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a very early silent film from 1896. It shows a man named Rip who falls asleep for twenty years and wakes up to find the world has changed around him.

historiclightheartedwhimsicalbriefgentleplayfulsimplesilentnostalgic

What happens

Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep est un film américain muet et en noir et blanc réalisé par William Kennedy Laurie Dickson sorti en 1896. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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