The Landlady
About The Landlady
Children in the street play tricks on a landlady. A man who has come to rent a room gets the bucket of water that was meant for her. Alice Guy directed. The French title is La concierge.
Cast & crew
More about The Landlady
Wikidata credits Alice Guy-Blaché and times the film at 1 minute. She was Alice Guy in 1900. An Internet Archive identifier is silent-la-concierge. The short is one of the films shown in the 2018 documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché.
Themes
Making
Guy filmed a doorway gag: the children set the trap, and the wrong person walks into it.
Preservation
The film survives. A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The victim of the bucket is a renter, not the landlady.
- No actors are named.
- The joke is one setup and one dousing.
- The archive file uses the French title.
Scenes
- The children bait the landlady at the door.
- A man arriving to rent the room takes the water.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-la-concierge)
