This Max Linder short comedy isn't one of his best, but it does bear the distinction of a rare example of pioneering French movie makers in its cast. The film appears to comically recreate Linder's entry into the world of movie-making. He appears at a studio where he is shown from one office to the next and undergoes an audition. A week later he receives a summons from the studio to appear in his first film, a comedy in which he is thrown from an apartment window by a couple of women who then proceed to throw various pieces of furniture - including a table and wardrobe - on top of him. Directors Georges Monca and Lucien Nonguet, as well as studio boss Charles Pathe, all make appearances as themselves, although exactly who is who is anybody's guess. Not particularly funny, the film nevertheless has some value as an insight into the early years of movie-making.
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Early Max Linder
happytrigger-64-3905175 March 2022
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One of the first short directed by Max Linder with another completely different subject, Max playing in a movie, he's a beginner and he has no charisma and he is weak. He gets slapped and receives furniture on the head after having been thrown out of a flat. This short is a witness of early cinema, with some personalities like Charles Pathé. A document but not the best of Max Linder.
The best offering released today
deickemeyer17 September 2017
This split-reel is the best offering released today by good odds. In the first half, Max Linder comes back with one of his welcome farces, not quite at his best, but very good; it markedly pleased the audience and there was a good deal of laughter. Max plays an awkward and inexperienced picture actor who has been taken on by Mr. Charles Pathe. Motion picture patrons will enjoy this offering. - The Moving Picture World, June 21, 1913
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