The Clown and Automobile (1899)
- Original title
- Automobilisme et autorité
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- comedy film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 2 min
- Rating
- 4.3 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A clown gets into trouble with an automobile. The film is a short silent comedy from 1899 by Georges Melies.
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What happens
Automaboulisme et Autorité (scène comique clownesque), released in the United States as The Clown and Automobile and in the United Kingdom as The Clown and Motor Car, is an 1899 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 194–195 in its catalogues. The film was presumed lost until 2011, when a hand-colored fragment on nitrate film was found among a collection donated to the Cinémathèque Française. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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