The Electric Hotel (1908)

Original title

El hotel eléctrico

Directed by

Segundo de Chomón

Genre

comedy film, fantasy film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

9 min

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 65 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short silent film where an electric hotel seems to have a mind of its own. Furniture moves by itself and objects appear and disappear through trick photography.

whimsicalplayfulinventivesurrealfast-pacedlightheartedvisual trickery

What happens

Hôtel électrique (also released in Spanish as El hotel eléctrico; transl. The Electric Hotel) is a 1908 silent French comedy-fantasy trick film directed by Segundo de Chomón and produced by Pathé Frères. The short appears to be inspired by the 1907 American short film The Haunted Hotel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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