1895 | France | Documentary

Jumping the Blanket (Le saut à la couverture)

  • 1 mins
  • Director | Louis Lumière
  • Writer | Louis Lumière
  • Producer | Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière

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Short depicting a group of men holding a blanket. Another man then starts running and jumps over and on the blanket several times.

Le Saut à la couverture(meaning "Jumping Onto the Blanket"),also known as Brimade dans une caserne(meaning "Bullying in a barracks"), is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. The film formed part of the first commercial presentation of the Lumière Cinématographe on 28 December 1895 at the Salon Indien, Grand Café, 14 Boulevard des Capuchins, Paris.

Un homme essaye de sauter sur une couverture tendu par quatre compères, tandis qu'un gendarme lui botte les fesses.

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