Le locataire diabolique (1910)

The film opens with one of Méliès' rare real exteriors, a part of his home at Montreuil. A would-be tenant is seeking new quarters. Inside the apartment he discusses terms with the landlord and is shown to the room. In this first shot there is a surprising medscene shift by the camera that brings us closer to the scene, an unexpected nod to intrascene editing. Upstairs, in the new room, a house painter is refreshing the walls, but the new tenant, with no time for such things, tosses the painter out the window. The tenant proceeds to the furnishing of the nearly bare room. Out of his valise he produces a steamer trunk. From the trunk he produces everything required, chairs, chests, a fireplace, a piano, and assorted bibelots. Paintings are pulled from the trunk and thrown at the walls, where they stick. A table is produced, four places for dinner set, and finally out of the trunk the tenant extracts a wife, two sons, and a maid, and dinner begins. (Disney recreated this magical house furnishing in "Mary Poppins"). (texten ur Artificially Arranged Scenes. The Films of Georges Méliès av John Frazer 1979)

Uppgifterna här avser filmmaterial i Svenska Filminstitutets arkiv. Arkivets bestånd tillgängliggörs på begäran främst för forskning, andra filmarkiv och rättighetsinnehavare. Vid frågor kontakta filmarkivet@filminstitutet.se