Electric Current
About Electric Current
A man and a woman steal food from a grocer's display, a sausage and a large loaf, while he is inside. He wires the goods. When the pair come back and grab the bottles, the current throws them into a jerking dance, and everyone in reach of the wire twitches like a puppet.
Cast & crew
More about Electric Current
Pathé catalogue number 1515, 30 meters, listed by August 1906. The French title is Le Courant électrique. The GRIMH Pathé index names Gaston Velle. Wikidata names Segundo de Chomón as director and writer. Barcelona showed it as Corriente eléctrica on 20 August 1906.
Themes
Making
The joke is the actors' shaking, not a stop-motion substitution. A Spanish write-up of the Chomón attribution says the short skips superimposition and the stop-trick and lets the performers do the shock.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Pathé blurb says a grocer who has been robbed more than once connects his merchandise to a current, and the shocked customers wave their arms like puppets.
- A Spanish listing in Tortosa followed on 28 September 1906.
- GRIMH notes an Italian remake title, La pila elettrica.
- No cast is named.
Scenes
- The pair take a sausage and a loaf while the grocer is in the back.
- They grab the wired bottles and jerk in place, and the shock spreads to whoever else is touching the goods.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Le Courant électrique (1906).webm)
