It's a 17th century bravo who tries to settle in for the night....but everything goes wrong: his clothes reappear or the bed disappears or some other mysterious and unsettling thing happens.
If we've seen this before, it's because Georges Melies had made UNE NUIT TERRIBLE, in which much the same thing happens, in 1896. In sum, it was a common sort of movie for the era, one that every film catalogue needed to have two or three examples of. Here's Pathe Frere's.
If we've seen this before, it's because Georges Melies had made UNE NUIT TERRIBLE, in which much the same thing happens, in 1896. In sum, it was a common sort of movie for the era, one that every film catalogue needed to have two or three examples of. Here's Pathe Frere's.