Hôtel électrique (also released in Spanish as El hotel eléctrico; transl. The Electric Hotel) is a 1908 silent French[1] comedy-fantasy film directed by Segundo de Chomón and produced by Pathé Frères. The short appears to be inspired by the 1907 American short film The Haunted Hotel.[2]
Laure and Bertrand arrive at the Electric Hotel, where a control board allows inanimate objects to come to life. For most of the film, the effects are used to perform tasks such as polishing shoes, styling hair and putting away luggage, to the two guests' great pleasure. At the end, a drunken concierge erratically throws switches that cause the system to go haywire, sending all of the hotel's furniture into a jumbled, chaotic mess.
Background
The film displays one of the earliest uses of stop motionanimation in history, though it is not de Chomón's first try at this technique: his 1906 film, Le théâtre de Bob, uses animated puppets. However, Hôtel électrique is also an early use of pixilation.
Julienne Mathieu's hair appears to brush itself, one of the first uses of stop-motion animation in film.
^Hamus-Vallée, Rejane; Renouard, Caroline (2018). "La American Vitagraph Company: les effets de l'amination". Special effects in the cinema: 120 years of creations in France and worldwide. Armand Colin. ISBN9782200622237. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
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