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Ingenious Soubrette (1902)

Ingenious Soubrette poster
Original title
La Soubrette ingénieuse
Directed by
Ferdinand Zecca
Genre
silent film
Country
France
Runtime
2 min
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A maid needs to hang paintings in a bourgeois apartment. While a valet leaves to get a step stool, the maid climbs the wall like an insect and hangs the pictures herself, surprising the valet when he returns.

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What happens

La Soubrette ingénieuse est un film français réalisé par Ferdinand Zecca, sorti en 1902. Dans un appartement bourgeois, la soubrette est chargée de pendre des tableaux. Le valet propose de lui rapporter un escabeau pour cette tâche et quitte le champ. La soubrette, telle un insecte, grimpe à quatre pattes sur le mur et en un tournemain accroche les toiles, puis reprend pied au sol. Le valet, revenant dans le champ avec l'escabeau, en est tout estomaqué. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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