LARROSEUP ARROSE - LUMIERE EXPERIMENTAL FILM 1895
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L'ARROSEUP ARROSE - LUMIERE EXPERIMENTAL FILM 1895
1895
AUGUSTE (1862 - 1954) LOUIS (1864 - 1948) LUMIERE
Before their public
presentation in December this year to paying customers, the
Lumière's filmed a comedic scenario called 'L\u2019Arroseur
arrosé' (The Waterer Watered).
In it was the Lumière
gardener François Clerc, along with a boy apprentice
working in the Lumière labs, Benoît Duval. The
story was of course simple and along the more modern lines of
'Denise the Menace'.
An image from the film
was used in the background of a poster promoting Lumière
films and their Cinématographe.
The poster depicts gardener Clerc and apprentice Duval on the screen in
the background.
GO TO
http://precinemahistory.net/1895.htm
And see the poster.
Also promoted as 'The
Sprinkler Sprinkled', 'Le Jardinier', 'Le Jardinier et
le petit espiègle', and 'The Tables Turned on
the Gardener' in English, this short film (under one minute)
has been called the first true "scenario" designed to portray
comedy on film however this claim is difficult to make.
The film runs a little under 49 seconds and this clip is 11 seconds looped. Whether the first of it's
kind or not, it is a step beyond that of the Lumière's
Actualités which were still being made by the Lumière's
and their associates. The artist (Marcellin Auzolle) took one frame
to use in his rendering for the movie screen the patrons are watching
in laughter - that of Duval taking his foot off the hose and the water
spraying up into Clerc's face. The poster is the first known to promote
an individual film because of its use of the background screen image,
however the image we have today of this poster is cropped and likely not the full original poster created.
Notice the lower borders of the poster's frame are visible but the
upper border is not seen. We suggest the actual poster was at least
twice as high as this cropped image. The artist has placed his name
vertically at the bottom right corner although it is not readable. This
cropped image promotes only the Cinématographe
Lumière and not the film by name. However we do believe
the original poster (now lost) promoted the film in more detail.
COPY CAT FILMS
& REMAKES
Soon after film pioneers had
learned new ways to entertain their fledgling audiences with scenarios
like the one above, we find them producing remakes and 'other versions'
of their own films. Short films that had shown modest success. The ability
of Lumière to draw an audience to see a gardener get soaked by
his own hose was not lost on other filmmakers.
immune to repeating something that worked. They alone re-made 'L\u2019Arroseur
arrosé at least two other times. We can also include
G.A. Smith, Edison, Méliès and A. G. Blache among others
who had made their own versions of this very film. It was even made
as late as 1900 and named "The Biter Bit".
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