A Tricky Painter’s Fate
About A Tricky Painter’s Fate
Passengers leave a railway car. A painter gets in and puts pictures of people in the windows so the conductor will think the car is full and leave him alone in it.
Cast & crew
More about A Tricky Painter’s Fate
Sold as Star Film 1266–1268. The American title is A Tricky Painter's Fate. The British title is A Railway Passenger's Ruse. No French sale at the time is known. The actor Gallois plays one of the passengers. A Centre national de la cinématographie guide concludes from the style that Manuel, not Méliès, directed it.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- By December 1908 it was on a bill of "novelties" at the Wellington Town Hall in New Zealand.
- Lucy Fischer, writing on René Magritte, says the film mixes real passengers with painted ones.
- Wikipedia times a surviving copy at 3 minutes and 41 seconds.
- The French title used later is Ce qui arrive à un petit malin de peintre.
Scenes
- The painter props portraits in the carriage windows to fake a full compartment.
