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The Egg-Laying Man (1896)

The Egg-Laying Man poster
Directed by
Cecil Hepworth
Genre
silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a very early silent short film from 1896. It shows a man who does something unusual involving eggs, though the exact trick is not fully clear from today's records.

shortsilentwhimsicalplayfullow-keyexperimental

What happens

The Egg-Laying Man è un cortometraggio muto del 1896 diretto da Cecil M. Hepworth, qui al suo esordio nella regia. Hepworth, dopo aver fondato due anni più tardi una propria casa di produzione, avrebbe girato, sempre con lo stesso soggetto e interpretato da lui stesso, un altro The Egg-Laying Man nel 1900. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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