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The Waterer Watered

Original title: L'arroseur arrosé
  • 1895
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  • 1m
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The Waterer Watered (1895)
ShortComedy

An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.

  • Director
    • Louis Lumière
  • Stars
    • François Clerc
    • Benoît Duval
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    • Director
      • Louis Lumière
    • Stars
      • François Clerc
      • Benoît Duval
    • 27User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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      • Louis Lumière
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      First fully staged fictional film projected in public.
    • Connections
      Edited into Louis Lumière (1968)

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    An outdoor comedy skit
    Louis Lumiere concentrated mostly on making slice-of-life movies during his 1895 filming with his newly invented camera, This is one of the few staged comedy skits that he produced and was made outdoors with his highly-mobile Cinematograph. A loose translation of the title would be "The Gardiner is Hosed." As scripted: a boy steps on a hose stopping a flow of water. The gardener looks at the hose end as the boy lifts his foot allowing the water to flow full force into the gardiner's face. The gardiner chases, catches and drags the boy before the camera to give him half-hearted, almost-comical spanking. Boy leaves and gardiner continues his watering chores. Strangley enough this simple comedy was re-filmed, during the next year, by other filmmakers in England. For another of Lumiere's comedy skits see "The Transformation of Hats" which starred Felcien Trewey, an English vaudeville actor and friend of the Lumieres, who appears in at least three of Louis' movies.
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    • Release date
      • 1896 (Finland)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • None
    • Also known as
      • Tables Turned on the Gardener
    • Production companies
      • Lumière
      • Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont
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      1 minute
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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