Love and Molasses (1908)

Original title

Amour et mélasse

Directed by

Georges Méliès

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

5 min

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man starts his first job and gets into a messy situation involving a sticky substance. The film uses simple visual tricks to create humorous moments.

slapstickplayfullightheartedcomedicsilent-eragimmickyshortfarcical

What happens

Love and Molasses, also known as His First Job and in French as Amour et mélasse, is a 1908 French short silent film credited to Georges Méliès. It was sold in the United States by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1246–1249 in its catalogues; no release is documented in Méliès's native France at the time. A 1981 analysis of the film's style, published in a Centre national de la cinématographie guide to Méliès's work, concluded that this film is probably one of those directed by Méliès's employee, an actor known as Manuel. The "molasses" featured in the film is actually water; the film's special effects are worked with substitution splices. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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