Post No Bills (1896)

Original title

Défense d'afficher

Directed by

Georges Méliès

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

1 min

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Two workers argue over a wall while they try to put up posters. The fight is physical and fast.

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What happens

Post No Bills (French: Défense d'afficher) is an 1896 French short black-and-white silent comedy film, directed by Georges Méliès, featuring two bill-posters squabbling over a poorly guarded wall. The film, one of Méliès' early works, was long thought lost, but was recovered in 2004. It is number 15 on the Star Films catalog. Post No Bills is 74 seconds long. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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