The Rolling Bed
About The Rolling Bed
A man who cannot pay the rent is put out with only his bed, which is on casters and cannot be seized. He hauls it through the street, lies down, and draws a crowd. The police start him off. The bed runs down stairs, hooks onto a works tram, knocks over six gendarmes on a hill, and breaks up a furniture theft. Alice Guy directed it for Gaumont. The French title is Le Lit à roulettes.
Cast & crew
More about The Rolling Bed
Shot in the sloping streets of the 19th arrondissement, with passersby used as extras. One man walks into the shot and looks at the camera. The listed length is 4 minutes. The copy in circulation ends abruptly. A copy is on the Internet Archive as silent-le-lit-roulettes.
Themes
Look
Guy shot the chase outdoors on Paris hills, not on a built street.
Preservation
A print survives. The circulating copy breaks off.
Notes
- French Wikipedia credits Guy, not Louis Feuillade. A Gaumont catalogue text is the source of the older Feuillade listing.
- The bed is exempt from seizure. That is why he is allowed to take it.
- A fur coat and an auto horn turn up on the ride in the catalogue description.
- The available print looks short of an ending.
Scenes
- The bed takes the hill and flattens six gendarmes.
- It crashes a furniture theft and scatters the thieves.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-le-lit-roulettes)
