What Is Home Without the Boarder
About What Is Home Without the Boarder
A husband and wife try to eat on the lower floor while three boarders carouse above. The boarders break the plaster, steal a bottle of wine through the hole, and one of them drops down, wraps himself in a sheet and tubing, and scares the wife as a monster. An officer comes in and is beaten with a pile of bedding. The boarders dance and pile a barricade against the door.
Cast & crew
More about What Is Home Without the Boarder
Georges Méliès directed and plays one of the boarders. The French title is La Maison tranquille. Star Film Company sold it as numbers 325–326, a scène comique. The two-level set had already been used in The Doctor and the Monkey. English Wikipedia dates the film 1900. EOFFTV dates it 1901 and gives 2 minutes. A surviving copy runs 1 minute and 12 seconds. A U.S. title is Troubles in a Tenement House.
Themes
Making
Méliès reused the stacked-floor set from The Doctor and the Monkey, made earlier the same year.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Méliès is one of the three boarders, not the policeman.
- The wine comes up through the hole in the ceiling.
- The monster is a sheet and some tubing.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons under the French title.
Scenes
- A boarder drops through the plaster dressed as a monster.
- Bedding drives the officer out, and the boarders barricade the door.
