''Peeping Tom at the Seaside'' (french: L'Indiscret aux bains de mer) was an 1897 French

short Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as ...

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

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 sold by Méliès's

Star Film Company 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 publi ...

and is numbered 113 in its catalogues. The film is one of a small group of risqué "mature subjects" (i.e.

stag film A stag film (also blue movie or smoker) is a type of pornographic film produced secretly in the first two-thirds of the 20th century. Typically, stag films had certain traits. They were brief in duration (about 12 minutes at most), were silent, d ...

s) Méliès made around this time; others included '' A Private Dinner'', '' After the Ball'', and ''

A Hypnotist at Work ''Le Magnétiseur'', sold in the United States as ''A Hypnotist at Work'' and in Britain as ''While Under a Hypnotist's Influence'', was an 1897 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbe ...

''. ''Peeping Tom at the Seaside'' is currently presumed

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* French black-and-white films Films directed by Georges Méliès French silent short films Lost French films 1890s lost films 1897 short films 1890s French films {{France-silent-film-stub