A gendarmes on the streets of Paris has a most useful peculiarity. He can stretch his right arm out, seemingly hundreds of meters, to point a lady in the right direction or seize a law-breaking Apache in this amusing short comedy from Romeo Bosetti.
Technically, it's a clever combination of propwork and stop-motion animation that achieves this effect that is still amusing eleven decades after the film was originally released. However, once some one has made the obvious description -- it's the title of this review -- and seen its operation once, that's it. You've pretty much exhausted the gag. Bosetti's essay at a chase sequence with a real difference is funny. I also found it mildly creepy.
