Partie de tric-trac
About Partie de tric-trac
Two people play tric-trac while the others watch. The man cheats. His partner objects, and he shuts the board. The group is the Lumière family and friends, seated outdoors.
Cast & crew
More about Partie de tric-trac
Catalogue Lumière view number 74, dated from 16 January 1896, filmed at the Lumière house at Clos des Plages in La Ciotat. From the left the catalogue names Rose Lumière, Juliette Winckler, Pierre Bellingard, Antoine Féraud, Charles-Albert Winckler, Marguerite Lumière, and Lazare Sellier. Le Petit Marseillais lists a Marseille screening on 13 April 1896 as Une partie de tric-trac. It was not part of the 28 December 1895 Grand Café programme.
Themes
Background
A domestic Lumière view from the house at La Ciotat, shown in Marseille in April 1896.
Look
Louis Lumière filmed the table at Clos des Plages with the whole party in one outdoor frame.
Notes
- Tric-trac is a French tables game related to backgammon.
- Louis Lumière operated the camera. The players are family, not hired actors.
Scenes
- Caught cheating, the man closes the tric-trac board while his partner protests.
