The Waiter's Dream
About The Waiter's Dream
Four customers play cards in a quiet café. The waiter falls asleep. Two angels play violins for him. The dream then runs through a string of trick scenes. The customers, annoyed by his snoring, wake him by pouring seltzer over him.
Cast & crew
More about The Waiter's Dream
Émile Cohl directed the French short Le songe d'un garçon de café. Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont released it in France in 1910. Kleine Optical issued it in the United States on 21 May 1910 as The Hasher's Delirium, on a split reel with Le Centenaire. Length 112 meters. About 5 minutes. The Moving Picture World synopsis is the source of the angel and seltzer plot.
Themes
Making
A Gaumont one-reeler that starts with a card game and spends the middle on Cohl's transformations.
Technique
The dream is a run of drawn and trick scenes cut into the live-action café.
Preservation
A print survives. A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The French title is Le songe d'un garçon de café. The American title is The Hasher's Delirium.
- The Internet Archive identifier is silent-le-songe-dun-garon-de-caf-aka-the-hashers-delirium.
- Cohl mixes the live café with drawn and trick transformations once the waiter is asleep.
Scenes
- Two angels play violins in the waiter's dream.
- The card players pour seltzer on him to stop the snoring.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-le-songe-dun-garon-de-caf-aka-the-hashers-delirium)
