L'Arroseur Arrosé
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| - | The anarchic comedy made its way into early film. From the dawn of the medium through the mid-1910s, film comedies either showed one single gag – like the [[Auguste and Louis Lumière|Lumière brothers]]' ''[[L'Arroseur Arrosé]]'' (The Sprinkler Sprinkled) – or, in a one-reeler, showed repetition of the same basic gag – like 1912's ''[[That Fatal Sneeze]]''. The famous comedians of the silent screen started out, in their two-reelers, using disconnected black-out sketches built around one theme ([[Buster Keaton]]'s ''[[The Playhouse]]'', for example), but by the early 1920s they had moved on to more cohesive narrative forms and, thus, abandoned anarchic comedy altogether (although Buster Keaton re-captured the anarchic spirit with ''[[Sherlock, Jr]]''). | + | |
| + | '''''L'Arroseur Arrosé''''' (also known as '''''The Waterer Watered''''' and '''''The Sprinkler Sprinkled''''') is an [[1895 in film|1895]] [[France|French]] [[Short subject|short]] [[black-and-white]] [[silent film|silent]] [[comedy film]] directed and produced by [[Auguste and Louis Lumière|Louis Lumière]] and starring [[François Clerc (actor)|François Clerc]] and [[Benoît Duval]]. It was first screened on [[June 10]] [[1895]]. | ||
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| + | It has the distinction of being the earliest known instance of film [[comedy]], as well as the first use of film to portray a [[fiction]]al story. The film was originally known as "Le Jardinier" (The Gardener) or "Le Jardinier et le petit espiègle", and is sometimes referred to in English as "The Tables Turned on the Gardener", and "The Sprinkler Sprinkled". | ||
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| + | *[[Anarchic comedy film]] | ||
| + | *[[Visual gag]] | ||
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L'Arroseur Arrosé (also known as The Waterer Watered and The Sprinkler Sprinkled) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent comedy film directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring François Clerc and Benoît Duval. It was first screened on June 10 1895.
It has the distinction of being the earliest known instance of film comedy, as well as the first use of film to portray a fictional story. The film was originally known as "Le Jardinier" (The Gardener) or "Le Jardinier et le petit espiègle", and is sometimes referred to in English as "The Tables Turned on the Gardener", and "The Sprinkler Sprinkled".
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