What Is Seen Through a Keyhole
About What Is Seen Through a Keyhole
A hotel porter stops work and looks through four keyholes. In one room a woman combs her hair. In the next, someone who looks like a woman takes off a wig and false breasts. In a third, a man drinks champagne with a woman on his knee. At the fourth door the guest opens it and kicks him down the stairs.
Cast & crew
More about What Is Seen Through a Keyhole
Ferdinand Zecca directed. Pathé distributed it in France as Par le trou de la serrure. American titles are What Is Seen Through a Keyhole and What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor. British titles are What Happened: The Inquisitive Janitor and Peeping Tom. Catalogue notes give it as Pathé 380. A 1905 film of the same English title is a different picture and is treated as lost.
Themes
Preservation
A print of the 1901 film survives. The 1905 film of the same English title is treated as lost.
Notes
- Four rooms, four looks, then the kick down the stairs.
- The second room is a person removing a wig and false breasts.
- Do not mix it with the 1905 film sold under the same English title.
Scenes
- The guest opens the door and kicks the porter downstairs.
