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The Sprinkler Sprinkled
L'Arroseur arrosé
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Louis Lumière, Lyon, spring 1895, shown as Le Jardinier at the Grand Café that December. François Clerc, the family gardener, waters a lawn; Benoît Duval, a factory apprentice, steps on the hose. Clerc inspects the nozzle, the jet hits him in the face, and he catches the boy and spanks him. Forty-five seconds, one camera position. Lumière later told Georges Sadoul he shot only this version; Marcellin Auzolle's poster of the gag is among the earliest film posters.
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The job: set up a gag. One set, one hose, four beats. A boy steps on it, the gardener looks in, the jet hits him, he catches the boy. Fiction begins with a punchline.
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