Calino courtier en paratonnerres
About Calino courtier en paratonnerres
Calino goes from one bourgeois house to the next, polite as a salesman, offering a lightning rod. The rods leave the factory with a defect and pull lightning down instead of sending it away. The houses he has just fitted are struck.
Cast & crew
More about Calino courtier en paratonnerres
Jean Durand directed. Clément Mégé is Calino, with Gaston Modot in the cast. Gaumont produced the short. It runs about five minutes.
Themes
Making
The gag is one repeated sale. Each customer who buys the rod is the next house the lightning finds.
Preservation
A print is on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- A viewer of the surviving print, writing as boblipton, describes the rods as long lances and the sets as loose lumber that comes apart when Calino passes.
- Another viewer, JoeytheBrit, says the last few scenes are the only ones that move, once the destruction starts.
- Walt Lee listed the short in A Reference Guide to Fantastic Films.
Scenes
- Calino presents the rod to a respectable household, and the next flash hits that house.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-calino-courtier-en-paratonnerres)
- Wikimedia Commons (Calino courtier en paratonnerres (1912).webm)
