PROGRAMME SHOWN ON November, 21, 1999
On Trianon
LE COCHON DANSEUR 1907, France, BW, 3'56, Music Hall, production Pathé. Music-hall number interpreted by a pig dressed up as a little girl.
THE BALLOONATIC 1923, USA, BW, 22'00, Slapstick by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, with Buster Keaton.
ROUGHEST AFRICA 1923, USA, BW, 19'38, Slapstick by Ralph Cedar and Clarence Hennecke, with Stan Laurel, James Finlayson and Katherine Grant. Wildcat hunting reexamined by Stan Laurel. Very funny!
MADAME BABYLAS AIME LES ANIMAUX , France , 1911 , 7’ , Pathé comic film , Directed by Alfred Machin, Mrs Babylas has a very sensitive and motherly heart: her home looks like Noah’s Arch... Her husband, annoyed, sets a panther loose on the pets...
THE DISH RAN AWAY WITH THE SPOON , USA , 1933 , 7’ , Cartoon by Rollin Hamilton , Warner Studios. Dishes and spoons do the washing-up while singing and dancing in the kitchen. A stranger arrives and threatens the spoon.
FLIRT EN CHEMIN DE FER 1902, France, BW, 0'40, Erotic, production Pathé.
LA PEINE DU TALION , France , 1906 , 4’ , colour , Pathé Production , Directed by Gaston Velle, Hand tinted fantasy. An entomologist is chasing rare insects. For this infamy he finds himself pinned on a huge cork.
TULIPS SHALL GROW 1942, USA, Colour, 7'05, Animation by George Pal, production Paramount. A love story in the country of tulips. A new colour masterpiece by the Puppetoon Master George Pal.
LE POMPIER DES FOLIES BERGERES 1928, France, BW, 7'29, Slapstick with Joséphine Baker. A very strange film, probably sold as a souvenir for Josephine Baker’s Show at the Folies Bergères.
HOW A WALT DISNEY CARTOON IS MADE, 1935, USA, BW, 8'55, Documentary, production RKO. A behind the scenes look at the making of Snow White. Starring Mr Disney himself.
UNE JOUEUSE ENRAGEE 1905, France, BW, 1'01, Erotic. A young woman loses at the three card trick and must take off her shirt... and even more. An early saucy little film.
NUDISME 1910. BW, 0'39, Erotic.