It's a split-reel comedy from Eclipse in which director-star Ernest Servaès is wandering around the streets of Paris, annoying people by playing his clarinet -- the possibilities for a musical accompanist are obvious -- until a crew of piano-hoisters react by dropping a piano on his head, so that the clarinet is stuck with the bell coming out of his mouth and the mouthpiece out of the back of his empty skull.
Servaès wanders around in a dazed effort to have the clarinet removed. It's funny in a brutal slapstick way and I enjoyed it. One of the reviewers on the IMDb referred to it as "surreal". Because that particular High Art movement would not be launched for another two or three years, I see no more reason to apply it here than calling this "Neo-Noir" or "Nouvelle Vague". Silly is the word for it.
Servaès wanders around in a dazed effort to have the clarinet removed. It's funny in a brutal slapstick way and I enjoyed it. One of the reviewers on the IMDb referred to it as "surreal". Because that particular High Art movement would not be launched for another two or three years, I see no more reason to apply it here than calling this "Neo-Noir" or "Nouvelle Vague". Silly is the word for it.