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Baignade dans le torrent

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Baignade dans le torrent (1897)
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Some boys and a dog play in a stream.Some boys and a dog play in a stream.Some boys and a dog play in a stream.

  • Director
    • Alice Guy
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    • Director
      • Alice Guy
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    5boblipton

    Just Because It Was Called An Actuality Doesn't Mean It Wasn't Carefully Planned

    A year after she shot her first movie, here Mlle. Guy is, shooting five boys playing around the rocks of a river rapids. One of the commenters on the IMDb wonders if the youngsters knew what was going on, as if the camera crew consisted of Alice wandering about the forest, spotting them, whipping out her IPhone -- Android not having been developed in the 19th Century -- and then sneaking away to share her ill-gotten intellectual gains with her corporate masters.

    In fact, someone would have noticed an appropriate site, an hour would be chosen for correct light or reflectors dragged in and a cameraman and his equipment would come in and set up, do some testing to make sure the shoot would work. Then Mademoiselle Guy -- or perhaps, given that she was in charge, Madame -- would tell the boys to get in the water and play, but stay in that area.

    Then they would shoot it again in case it came out better. And come back tomorrow, boys, in case the film we develop in the lab isn't as good as we'd like.
    Michael_Elliott

    Kino's The Films of Alice Guy (1897)

    Fisherman at the Stream, The (1897)

    Bathing in a Stream (1897)

    Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter (1897)

    *** (out of 4)

    Three early films from Gaumont Studios and director Alice Guy. The first film, THE FISHERMAN AT THE STREAM has a group of boys playing a prank on a fisherman by pushing him into the water. BATHING IN A STREAM, apparently shot at the same time as our first film, has the boys taking a bath in that stream while SERPENTINE DANCE BY MME. BOB WALTER, running the longest at 107-seconds, is pretty much a direct remake of ANNABELLE SERPENTINE DANCE from Edison. Out of the three films from this year in Kino's collection, the first one is probably the best but none of them really feature Guy breaking out onto her own as all three seem to "borrow" a lot of previous films from Melies and Edison. The third film is probably the weakest of the bunch as we've seen in from various studios and it has probably already grown quite tiresome even in this early part of cinema, although people back then were obviously eating it up.

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      Included on the "Alice Guy Blanche Vol. 1: The Gaumont Years" Blu-ray, released by Kino.
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      Featured in Filmlovers! (2024)

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    • Release date
      • September 1, 2009 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
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    • Also known as
      • Bathing in a Stream
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      • Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont
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