Writing Backwards (1896)

Original title

Écriture à l'envers

Directed by

Louis Lumière

Genre

silent film

Country

France

Runtime

50 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French short film from 1896 shows magician Félicien Trewey performing his famous act of writing backwards. It was filmed at the Lumière family home in La Ciotat.

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What happens

Écriture à l'envers (English: Writing Backwards) is a 1896 French silent short film directed by Louis Lumière. The film documents the celebrated magician and music‑hall performer Félicien Trewey demonstrating his famous backward‑writing act, a specialty that had made him internationally known in the late nineteenth century. The film is listed as Vue no. 42 in the official Lumière catalogue and was photographed at the Lumière family property in La Ciotat. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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