Bout-de-Zan vole un éléphant

19131913
9m

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6.2/10

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René Poyen in Bout-de-Zan vole un éléphant (1913)

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Bout de Zan is a very precocious young man! When the circus comes to town, he does what any kid might do in this situation--he steals the circus' elephant!!! Later, he sits on the curb with ... Read allBout de Zan is a very precocious young man! When the circus comes to town, he does what any kid might do in this situation--he steals the circus' elephant!!! Later, he sits on the curb with the elephant and begs coins off people--with a sign saying 'blind since birth'...Bout de Zan is a very precocious young man! When the circus comes to town, he does what any kid might do in this situation--he steals the circus' elephant!!! Later, he sits on the curb with the elephant and begs coins off people--with a sign saying 'blind since birth'...

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

186

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POPULARITY

405,969

250,688

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Released in the US as a split reel along with the documentary The Lakes of Salzburg (1913).

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Elephant and castle

These "Bout-De -Zan" shorts were movies aimed at the kids market .Feuillade had two whiz kids : René Poyen -Bout-de-Zan- and René Dary (aka Clement Mary)-Bébé-:the latter continued his career as a grown up and he generally portrayed tough guys with a great heart ("Carrefour Des Enfants Perdus" ).Poyen and Dary appeared together in some of the shorts.

"Steals an elephant" is right.A tiny circus is in town and the young brat steals the enormous animal from them.What follows is moderately funny: Bout-De-Zan pretends that his new pet is blind and he begs in the streets.An elegant woman invites both of them and they have lunch in the dining-room (elephant included).

This last part may have inspired Jean De Brunhoff for his hero Babar the little elephant who ,having seen his mother killed by the hunters,finds a home in an old lady's place.

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