Cupid is napping on the steps of a classical-looking scene. An elderly man approaches, grabs his quiver and holding it aloft, calls for a young woman, who comes to sit with him. Alas, it is empty and another, younger man has an arrow for the young woman.
This Pathe short has no credits, but that's not unusual for 1902. What is mildly unusual is the rather involved classical imagery, which implied an audience educated beyond the cinema's norms at that point; Classical imagery was reserved for spectacles and Christian martyrdom. References to Apuleius or the Golden Ass would be improbably high-brow. Perhaps we are seeing the first stirrings of ambition under Zecca in this high-brow dirty joke.
This Pathe short has no credits, but that's not unusual for 1902. What is mildly unusual is the rather involved classical imagery, which implied an audience educated beyond the cinema's norms at that point; Classical imagery was reserved for spectacles and Christian martyrdom. References to Apuleius or the Golden Ass would be improbably high-brow. Perhaps we are seeing the first stirrings of ambition under Zecca in this high-brow dirty joke.