The Faithful Furniture

1910 ComedyAnimation 4 minutes Directed by Émile Cohl

About The Faithful Furniture

A man who cannot pay the rent has to sell his furniture. The pieces will not stay with the buyers. They get up and walk home.

Cast & crew

More about The Faithful Furniture

Émile Cohl directed. The French title is Mobilier fidèle. Wikidata times it at 4 minutes. The catalog warns that it is often mixed up with Romeo Bosetti's Le Garde meuble automatique (1912). The Internet Archive files this title as The Automatic Moving Company.

Themes

Preservation

A copy is on the Internet Archive. It is a different film from Bosetti's 1912 Le Garde meuble automatique.

Notes

  • The walking furniture is the gag, not a haunted-house plot.
  • Bosetti's 1912 film is a different picture with a similar idea.
  • A copy is on the Internet Archive.

Scenes

  • Sold chairs and tables leave their new owners and return to the man who had to sell them.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (silent-mobilier-fidle-aka-the-automatic-moving-company)