''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

animated Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby image, still images are manipulated to create Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on cel, transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and e ...

film directed by Émile Reynaud. It is an animated film made of 636 individual images hand painted in 1893. The film showed off Emile's invention, the Théâtre Optique. It was shown at the

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from December 1894 until March 1900.

Plot

The film consists of three casts of characters on a beach, containing two

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s and a diving board. A woman jumps off the diving board into the water followed by a hesitant fat man. Taking his time he gets pushed by the woman into the water who then jumps in after him. A woman plays with a dog who just jumped out of her hands. As she does this a man walking past jumps out and scares her to the floor. Helping her up, he apologises as she goes to get changed in the nearest beach hut. After doing so the man peeps on her. Another man comes out of the other beach hut, and on seeing the peeping tom spy on her gives him a kick and chases him off. After she comes out she takes off her gown and her and this new man go off into the water. They bob up and down in the water before she invites him to swim out of scene. Once the couple have gone, a man sails out in a boat. He unfurls the sail, which has written on it the words: "La représentation est terminée" (the show is finished).

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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 1894 animated short films 1894 comedy films Films directed by Émile Reynaud French animated short films French comedy short films Films about water sports Silent films in color Animated films without speech Silent French comedy films 1890s French films Animated films set on beaches French silent short films {{1890s-France-film-stub