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 Flag of Spain Spain
Language Silent
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El Hotel eléctrico (The Electic 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.

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