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L'arroseur arrosé (1895)
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1896 (Finland)
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This may well be the first sight gag in cinema history, and it's certainly one of the most famous -...
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Slapstick, 1890s style
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Le jardinier (France) (première title)
Le jardinier et le petit espiègle
Tables Turned on the Gardener (USA)
The Sprayer Sprayed
The Sprinkler Sprinkled (USA)
The Waterer Watered (USA)
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Le jardinier et le petit espiègle
Tables Turned on the Gardener (USA)
The Sprayer Sprayed
The Sprinkler Sprinkled (USA)
The Waterer Watered (USA)
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1 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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First fully staged fictional film projected in public.
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Featured in Historia del cine: Epoca muda (1983) (V)
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L'Arroseur Arrosé is a cry from the depths of the proletariat for social emancipation, whereby the disenfranchised masses represented in a life-justifying performance as the Boy can only find justice through subversion and revolution. Indeed, the conclusion of this epic drama can been seen as a confirmation of the inherent violence in a Hegelian dialectic of class conflict; the chilling figure of the Gardener (a possible reference to ecclesiastical authority?) viciously suppresses the rights of the Boy to self-expression. The perennial nature of this conflict is undermined when both parties rush out of the "garden"; no resolution is possible except mutual annihilation.
Or, it could be a piece of light-hearted fun, as Lumiere recognised that the novelty of seeing pictures of factory workers and trains moving was wearing thin, and needed to be backed up with plot. It'll raise a smile for a few seconds, as a memento of an age with less demanding audiences.