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7/10 FilmAffinity Running time 8 minutes Language Silent Director Segundo de Chomón | 3/5 Rate Your Music Directed by Segundo de Chomón Country Spain
France Initial release 31 October 1908 (France) Distributed by Pathé | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starring Segundo de Chomón, Julienne Mathieu Release date 31 October 1908 (1908-10-31) Cast Segundo de Chomón, Julienne Mathieu Similar The House of Ghosts, The Red Spectre, Satan at Play, Excursion to the Moon, The Enchanted Drawing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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El hotel eléctrico (Spanish: The Electric Hotel) is a 1908 silent Spanish comedy-fantasy film directed by Segundo de Chomón, It was thought to be lost but was later recovered.
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Background
The film displays one of the earliest uses of stop motion animation in history, though it is not de Chomón's first try at this technique. His 1906 film, Le théâtre de Bob, uses animated puppets. However, El Hotel eléctrico is also an early use of pixilation.
Plot
As baggage is checked in, that baggage moves by itself to a room where it opens itself, revealing lots of brushes that now move out. A man and a woman sit down. Then the man's boot unbuckles by itself. With the boot off, a brush moves itself up and down on the front end. The woman's coat comes off by itself, followed by the woman's hair receiving a thorough brushing - also by itself - and subsequently her hair ties itself into a bun. Following those actions is a scene of a man in front of a wall full of electrical switches. As he pulls one large switch down, the scene cuts to various chairs and other furniture moving in chaotic ways as the short ends.
Cast
