Post No Bills
About Post No Bills
A sentry marches past a wall painted Défense d'afficher. One bill poster waits until he is gone and sticks up an advertisement. A second covers it with a larger poster. The two fight, then run when the sentry returns. His commander scolds him for the wall.
Cast & crew
More about Post No Bills
Georges Méliès directed and produced the short, Star Film catalog number 15. English Wikipedia times it at 74 seconds. A full-film timing on the same page is given as 1 minute 15 seconds.
Themes
Preservation
A print recovered in 2004 survives. Silent Era lists the survival status as a print existing.
Notes
- The American release title is Post No Bills. The French title is Défense d'afficher.
- It was long treated as lost. A print was recovered in 2004. Wikipedia calls that recovery the oldest rediscovered film.
- Silent Era lists it as a Théâtre Robert-Houdin production and notes a home-video DVD.
Scenes
- The second poster goes over the first, and both men bolt when the sentry comes back.
Also available
- Internet Archive (Post_no_Bills)
- Wikimedia Commons (Georges Méliès - Défense d'afficher.webm)
