A Private Dinner (1897)

Directed by

Georges Méliès

Genre

silent film

Country

France

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short silent film from the 1890s by Georges Melies. It shows a private dinner between two people. The film was considered a risqué subject for its time.

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What happens

A Private Dinner (French: En cabinet particulier) is an 1897 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 127 in its catalogues. The film is one of a small group of risqué "mature subjects" (i.e. stag films) Méliès made around this time; others included Peeping Tom at the Seaside, A Hypnotist at Work, and After the Ball. A Private Dinner is currently presumed lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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