The Hilarious Posters
About The Hilarious Posters
Georges Méliès pastes a wall of posters, among them a portrait of the performer Vilbert and ads for meat extract, paint, porcelain, face powder, a liqueur, lamps, and corsets. When gendarmes pass, the figures step out, flirt, and drop their goods. They come alive again to throw the wares at a gentleman, and the billboard crashes. Police put the wall back, and the figures, spotted behind a fence, dance off.
Cast & crew
More about The Hilarious Posters
French title Les Affiches en goguette, Star Film numbers 821–823. Substitution splices do most of the appearances. The three painters on the Tripaulin poster were filmed much farther from the camera and matted in by a multiple exposure.
Themes
Music
Silent.
Notes
- Henri Vilbert appears as himself, on the poster of L'Amour à crédit.
- The products named on the wall include Poirot meat extract, Quinquina au Cacao, and Mignon corsets.
- The gentleman is the one who gets the thrown goods.
- Méliès plays the bill-poster.
Scenes
- Poster figures climb down and flirt as the gendarmes go by.
- The wall collapses after the goods are thrown.
- The figures dance away behind the repaired fence.
