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Tables Turned on the Gardener [I]
Tables Turned on the Gardener [I]
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TABLES TURNED ON THE GARDENER [I]

Arroseur et arrosé [I]

Directed by Louis Lumière
France, 1895
Short

Synopsis

A gardener is watering flowers; a young boy steps on the hose, thus blocking the flow of water; the gardener looks down the hose to see what’s happening; the boy lifts his foot off. The first fully staged fictional film presented in public, and the first comedy film. Version I of III.

Synopsis

A gardener is watering flowers; a young boy steps on the hose, thus blocking the flow of water; the gardener looks down the hose to see what’s happening; the boy lifts his foot off. The first fully staged fictional film presented in public, and the first comedy film. Version I of III.