Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster
About Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster
A rooster stands on a pedestal marked with Gaumont's G and daisy, crows several times, and flaps its wings. At the start, an assistant's sleeve is in frame as the bird is set on the stand.
More about Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster
Filmographies credit Alice Guy and date the short 1905. The French title is Le Coq dressé de Cook et Rilly. It runs 2 minutes. A Gaumont archive record has been cited for a 1910 release, after Guy had left the company, and she does not mention the film in her memoirs. The year on this record stays 1905.
Themes
Making
The shot is one setup: the bird, the company pedestal, and a hand that leaves the frame.
Preservation
A print circulates, including on the Kino Gaumont Years Blu-ray and the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The pedestal carries the Gaumont mark, a G with a daisy.
- French notes on the film read the crowing rooster as a joke on Pathé, whose emblem was a rooster.
- It is on the Kino Blu-ray Alice Guy Blaché Vol. 1: The Gaumont Years.
- An Internet Archive copy is filed under the title with 'silent' in the identifier.
Scenes
- A sleeve sets the rooster on the Gaumont pedestal.
- The bird crows and flaps.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-le-coq-dress-de-cook-et-rilly)
- Kino Blu-ray Alice Guy Blaché Vol. 1: The Gaumont Years