What a delight this film is. It touches so many human emotions - curiosity, anticipation, humour, revenge, excitement - all within 44 seconds. It is interesting to see the story tellers elicit these emotions in such an early film. They knew what made and makes people laugh. "Slip on a banana peel, the world's at your feet." And I'm sure it had quite an impact on those first audiences. While we login to FB and Youtube and can watch people falling down all day long, in those early years seeing such actions would have been a fluke of happenstance, or retold through stories. Capturing the actions in film, enabling viewers to watch it over and over again would have been joyful -- and then create the demand for more. Looking forward to this course!
Discussion of the First Slapstick Film: "L'Arroseur Arrosé" (1896)
in OUCH! A Salute to Slapstick
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What a delight this film is. It touches so many human emotions - curiosity, anticipation, humour, revenge, excitement - all within 44 seconds. It is interesting to see the story tellers elicit these emotions in such an early film. They knew what made and makes people laugh. "Slip on a banana peel, the world's at your feet." And I'm sure it had quite an impact on those first audiences. While we login to FB and Youtube and can watch people falling down all day long, in those early years seeing such actions would have been a fluke of happenstance, or retold through stories. Capturing the actions in film, enabling viewers to watch it over and over again would have been joyful -- and then create the demand for more. Looking forward to this course!