''Watering the Flowers'' (french: L'Arroseur) was an 1896 French short
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Georges Méliès
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (; ; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French illusionist, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
Méliès was well known for the use of ...
. It was released by Méliès's company
Star Film
The Manufacture de films pour cinématographes, often known as Star Film, was a French film production company run by the illusionist and film director Georges Méliès.
History
On 28 December 1895, Méliès attended the celebrated first public ...
and is numbered 6 in its catalogues.
The film was made in imitation of the more famous
Louis Lumière
Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 Besançon – 6 June 1948, Bandol) was a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema.
Early life and education
Lumière was one of four children of ...
film ''
L'Arroseur Arrosé
''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 L ...
''. It is currently presumed
lost
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History
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.
See also
*
List of lost films
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Reas ...
References
External links
*
''L'Arroseur'' at SilentEra
1896 films
French black-and-white films
Films directed by Georges Méliès
French silent short films
1896 comedy films
Lost French films
French comedy short films
1890s lost films
Lost comedy films
1896 short films
Silent comedy films
1890s French films
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