Calino, Love Tamer
About Calino, Love Tamer
Calino follows a woman down the street and keeps following until she reaches a traveling lion show run by her husband. To stop a beating, she introduces Calino as the new apprentice tamer. He is put in with the lions. The cats get out of the cage.
Cast & crew
More about Calino, Love Tamer
Jean Durand directed for Gaumont. Clément Mégé plays Calino. Berthe Dagmar, Durand's wife, plays the woman he follows. A digital copy runs 6 minutes 38 seconds.
Themes
Making
Durand uses a real traveling cage and real lions, then cuts so the performers and the animals do not share the shot once the cats are loose.
Preservation
A print survives. Wikimedia Commons holds a copy of 6 minutes 38 seconds, taken from Gaumont's Le cinéma premier.
Notes
- Viewers of the print note that Mégé steps into a cage with a lion for a few seconds.
- After the escape, the actors are not in the frame at the same time as the cats.
- The Wikimedia file is sourced to the Gaumont set Le cinéma premier.
Scenes
- The woman tells her strongman husband that Calino is the apprentice tamer.
- Mégé goes into the cage, and the lions later get loose.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Calino dompteur par amour (1912).webm)
