El Hotel eléctrico

Infobox Film
name = El Hotel eléctrico


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caption = A scene from "El Hotel eléctrico"
director = Segundo de Chomón
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starring = Segundo de Chomón, Julienne Mathieu
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runtime = 8 mins
country = ESP
language = Silent
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imdb_id = 0000516

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.

Plot

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.

Cast

*Segundo de Chomón
*Julienne Mathieu

External links

*imdb title|0000516
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up9JJOaWZE4 "El hotel eléctrico" (1908)]