The great idea not being waking up with telekinetic powers, but having someone wake up with telekinetic powers quickly realizing that a great career as a mover (and shaker) of furniture may lie ahead of him. The furniture animation is hilarious and quite good. This is something entirely different from feuillade´s more famous crime serials, and hopefully everyone in the world will someday be able to see this. In the meantime, let´s hope for more furniture animation in today´s cinema.
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Amusing Stop-Motion Film By Feuillade
boblipton8 October 2023
Clerk Georges Biscot is caught asleep at his desk two hours after work is ended and is fired. Disconsolate, he goes to his aunt to give her the bad news. She is holding a seance, and the furniture starts dancing. Biscot is a medium. So he gets a job at a firm of movers, moving the furniture on their own power, and the van likewise.
This late, short comedy feature (only 34 minutes in length) was directed by Louis Feuillade, and looks to be very old-fashioned for 1921, with stop-motion effects providing amusement in the style of movies from the first decade of the century, like 1910's LE MOBILIER FIDELE. Yet by placing it in the context of a story, and with Biscot offering a bit of a trodden-down character -- he never takes off his sleeve protectors -- it takes these effects which were used by Melies as the point of the story into techniques to bring it to life.
This late, short comedy feature (only 34 minutes in length) was directed by Louis Feuillade, and looks to be very old-fashioned for 1921, with stop-motion effects providing amusement in the style of movies from the first decade of the century, like 1910's LE MOBILIER FIDELE. Yet by placing it in the context of a story, and with Biscot offering a bit of a trodden-down character -- he never takes off his sleeve protectors -- it takes these effects which were used by Melies as the point of the story into techniques to bring it to life.
Funny comedy with good stop motion
andyschoen16 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Fun French short running about 34 minutes. When a office worker gets fired for sleeping on the job he goes home to tell his Aunt who happens to be carrying on a seance with friends. The table taps out that it wants Gustave to be it's medium much to his surprise. When he returns home inanimate objects seem to follow him around. First the table in his room won't leave him alone and when he finally escapes he throws his umbrella away only to have it fly back into his hands.
When he walks into a cafe all the tables seem to come at him like a magnet. He decides to make the most of the situation and after convincing the owner of a moving company to hire him after he lifts him up with the umbrella, he proceeds to empty an entire apartment single handedly just by motioning with his hands. All the furniture moves through stop motion , sometimes 10 or more pieces at a time, and this is the highlight of the short, as they march themselves down the stairs and into the moving van outside. He proceeds to unleash the horses and is able to move the carriage under his power. Even the cop out ending doesn't ruin this one.
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