Les infortunes des patineurs
About Les infortunes des patineurs
Onlookers copy a cancan and then a roller-skating act, and the imitation turns into falls. A gang of Apaches attacks a passerby, played by Georges Méliès. The police confiscate the skates and then try to use them themselves.
Cast & crew
More about Les infortunes des patineurs
The English titles are The Woes of Roller Skaters and The Woes of Roller Skates. Star Film numbered it 1227–1232 in the American catalogues. There was no known French release. The Library of Congress copyright is July 21, 1908, and the American release was that July. Bruneval plays the police commissioner, Charles Claudel a policeman, and Fernande Albany one of the ladies. The obese skater resembles a figure in a 1905 or 1906 Pathé film.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Méliès's part is the passerby the Apaches jump at the end.
- It belongs with his films in which watchers start copying the act they came to see.
- Like The Scheming Gambler's Paradise (1905), it has the police play with the things they have just seized.
- The French title on surviving copies is often Les Patineurs.
Scenes
- The police strap on the confiscated skates and lose control of them.
Influenced by
- A 1905 or 1906 Pathé Frères skating film
