''Autour d'une cabine'' (Around A Cabin), original full title ' (Around a Cabin or Misadventures of a Couple at the Seaside), is an 1894 French short

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film directed by

Émile Reynaud Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877 that improved on the zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated fi ...

. It is an animated film made of 636 individually images hand painted in 1893. The film showed off Emile's invention, the

Théâtre Optique The Théâtre Optique (Optical Theatre) is an animated moving picture system invented by Émile Reynaud and patented in 1888. From 28 October 1892 to March 1900 Reynaud gave over 12,800 shows to a total of over 500,000 visitors at the Musée Grév ...

. It was shown at the

Musée Grévin The ''Musée Grévin'' (; ) ( en, Grévin Museum) is a wax museum in Paris located on the Grands Boulevards in the 9th arrondissement on the right bank of the Seine, at 10, Boulevard Montmartre, Paris, France. It is open daily; an admission fee ...

from December 1894 until March 1900.

Plot

The film consists of a series of animations on a beach containing two

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s and a diving board. Two characters play at diving into the water from the diving board and then appear on the beach. The woman begins to play with a small dog and is then joined by a gentleman. The two play around on the beach before getting changed into bathing costumes and going into the water. They bob up and down in the water before swimming out of the scene. Once the couple have gone, a man sails out in a boat.

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*, note this does not show the film in the sequence or frame rate as it was shown in the 1890s * 1894 films French silent short films 1890s animated short films 1894 comedy films 1894 short films Films directed by Émile Reynaud French animated short films French comedy films Films about water sports Silent films in color Animated films without speech Silent comedy films 1890s French films Films set on beaches {{1890s-France-film-stub