The Good Luck Of A Souse (1908)
aka Il y a un dieu pour les ivrognes
This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just thrown his family out a window. We see a couple of them landing on the ground and then we go back to the room where the drunk is now trying to kill himself. Just by watching this you can tell that the film is missing some of the opening as well as some of the ending. I'm not exactly sure how much is missing but what we've got remaining is right around four-minutes worth of footage. I can't say what the complete film was like but it really doesn't appear to be anything overly special. I'm going to say that this was an attempted comedy but I thought what jokes were available here were quite flat. This includes the big suicide scene that just doesn't work and I also wasn't too impressed with the special effect of the people falling from the window. This here is certainly for Melies completest only.
aka Il y a un dieu pour les ivrognes
This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just thrown his family out a window. We see a couple of them landing on the ground and then we go back to the room where the drunk is now trying to kill himself. Just by watching this you can tell that the film is missing some of the opening as well as some of the ending. I'm not exactly sure how much is missing but what we've got remaining is right around four-minutes worth of footage. I can't say what the complete film was like but it really doesn't appear to be anything overly special. I'm going to say that this was an attempted comedy but I thought what jokes were available here were quite flat. This includes the big suicide scene that just doesn't work and I also wasn't too impressed with the special effect of the people falling from the window. This here is certainly for Melies completest only.