Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
About Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
Polin walks on in front of a curtain, bows, and sings "L'Anatomie du conscrit." The song is a comic army turn by Eugène Rimbault and Émile Spencer. At the draft exam the major looks the recruit over and says this one will have to go to the cavalry, on account of his anatomy. Polin bows again and walks off.
Cast & crew
More about Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
Alice Guy directed the phonoscène for Société L. Gaumont et compagnie in 1905. It is one of thirteen Chronophone films Polin made for Gaumont. A listing gives 2 minutes 30 seconds. Another gives 3 minutes. The curtain carries Gaumont's G and daisy.
Themes
Making
Guy filmed Polin once, against the Gaumont curtain, for the Chronophone. There is no second set.
Music
Polin sings Eugène Rimbault and Émile Spencer's "L'Anatomie du conscrit," recorded for the Gaumont Chronophone.
Preservation
The phonoscène survives with its sound.
Notes
- Polin's stage name is the only billing. He enters, sings, and leaves as he would at a café-concert.
- The song's recruit is Jean-François Pierre Lafleur in the last verse.
- The picture is a Chronophone: the song is on a disc locked to the film.
- The French title is L'Anatomie du conscrit.
Scenes
- Polin bows to the house and starts the song.
- He bows again and leaves the curtain.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-polin-lanatomie-du-conscrit)
Quotes
Ce gaillard, faudra l'mettre cavalier, rapport à son anatomie.
