The Race for the Sausage
About The Race for the Sausage
A lively poodle snatches a string of sausages from a grocer's window and runs. Two women gossiping are bowled over. Painters' scaffolding collapses as the crowd presses past. On a railway line a train smashes an empty pram after the nurse has pulled the baby clear. A hunter in the style of Tartarin fires into the sausage chain. The dog gets away. The hungry pursuers eat what is left, and the grocer can do nothing about it.
Cast & crew
More about The Race for the Sausage
French Wikipedia credits Alice Guy and Gaumont, 1907, about 4 minutes. The French title is La Course à la saucisse. Gaumont later put the short on a collection of Guy's films. Louis Feuillade is sometimes named as director or as an assistant. 1907 is the year he took over Gaumont production when Guy left for the United States.
Themes
Making
Guy stages a straight chase: each gag adds another runner, and the last shot is the crowd eating the evidence.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print survives. Gaumont included it in a collection of Alice Guy's films.
Notes
- A viewing times one copy at 4 minutes 15 seconds.
- The chase picks up house painters, people in nightclothes, drunks, a farmer with a pitchfork, and a maid.
- The hunter shoots the sausage links, not the dog.
- Wikidata lists both Guy and Feuillade as directors. The Gaumont collection treats it as Guy's.
- The camera operator is not named. One account suggests Guy or Anatole Thiberville.
Scenes
- The poodle yanks the sausage chain out of the shop window.
- Painters drop with their scaffold as the chase goes by.
- A train flattens the pram after the nurse has the baby out of it.
- The hunter fires, the dog bolts, and the runners eat the broken links.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-course-la-saucisse)
