Bathing in a Stream
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About Bathing in a Stream
Five young men in swimsuits, and a dog, move from rock to rock in the cascade of a torrent. Alice Guy filmed it for Gaumont. The French title is Baignade dans un torrent. A French listing times it at 30 seconds. Another listing says one minute.
Cast & crew
More about Bathing in a Stream
Guy directed this 1897 Gaumont actuality. It was made in the same outing as Le Pêcheur dans le torrent, in which boys push a fisherman into the water. This reel is the bathing, without that prank.
Themes
Making
Guy points the camera at the cascade and lets the swimmers cross the rocks. The joke film from the same water is the fisherman short, not this one.
Look
One view of a waterfall. The swimmers and the dog cross the frame from rock to rock.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print of about half a minute survives.
Notes
- The English title on later editions is Bathing in a Stream.
- The dog is in the water with the five swimmers.
- IMDb’s one-minute timing and the French filmography’s 30 seconds are both in print.
- Gaumont Treasures collections have carried it with Guy’s other 1897 shorts.
Scenes
- The five men and the dog pick their way through the falling water.
