''The Rag Picker'' (french: Le Chiffonnier), also released as ''A Good Joke'' (french: Une bonne farce), was an 1896 French

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 ...

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 and is numbered 9 in its catalogues. The film is currently presumed

lost Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography *Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland * Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US History *Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee ...

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* 1896 films French short documentary films French silent short films French black-and-white films Films directed by Georges Méliès Lost French films 1890s short documentary films 1890s lost films 1890s French films https://ptduttablogspot.in/wp-admin/post.php?post=2787&action=elementor Bold text{{cite web , last1=Dutta , first1=PT , title=Life of Rag-pickers in busy city , url=https://ptduttablogspot.in/wp-admin/post.php?post=2787&action=elementor , website=www.ptduttablogspot.in , publisher=PT Dutta , access-date=24 September 2023