El hotel eléctrico

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El hotel eléctrico

A scene from El Hotel eléctrico
Directed by Segundo de Chomón
Starring Segundo de Chomón, Julienne Mathieu
Running time 8 mins
Country Spain Spain
Language Silent

El hotel eléctrico (The Electric Hotel in Spanish) is a 1908 silent Spanish comedy film fantasy directed by Spanish film pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

The film displays one of the earliest uses of stop motion animation in history, though it is not de Chomón's first try at this technique. His 1906 film, Le théâtre de Bob, use animated puppets. But El Hotel eléctrico is also an early use of pixilation.

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Julienne Mathieu's hair appears to brush itself, one of the first uses of stop-motion animation in film.

In summation, as baggage is checked in that baggage moves by itself to a room where it opens itself revealing lots of brushes that now move out. We next see a man and a woman sitting down before we see the man's boot get unbuckled by itself. With the boot off, a brush moves itself up and down on the front end. We next see the woman's coat come off by itself before her hair gets a thorough brushing-also by itself-before the hair ties itself into a bun. Then comes a scene of a man in front of a wall full of electrical switches. As he pulls one large switch down, we cut to a scene of various chairs and other furniture moving in chaotic ways as the short ends.

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