La Concierge | 1900 | Comedy, Short

Title: La Concierge | 1900 | Comedy, Short Director: Alice Guy. Studio: Gaumont. Release Date: 1900. Runtime: 1. Format: Silent, black-and-white Country: France. Language: Silent Genres: Comedy, Short. --- Chapters: 00:00:00 Apartment inquiry 00:00:12 Mischievous prank 00:00:28 Concierge’s plan 00:00:40 Return of the renter 00:00:52 Bucket mishap --- Summary: A prospective tenant asks a concierge about a rental, then steps away to think. While she is in her lodge, a band of children rings her bell and flees, prompting her to vow revenge. When the man returns and rings, the waiting trap springs: he is drenched by a bucket of water meant for the pranksters, to the confusion of the concierge and the amusement of onlookers. --- Background: Produced by Gaumont and directed by Alice Guy—one of cinema’s earliest narrative filmmakers—La Concierge exemplifies the brief street comedies of the era and was filmed outdoors. It belongs to Guy’s prolific early period at Gaumont, where she helped establish story-based filmmaking before 1905. --- Trivia: The film runs approximately one minute, typical of Gaumont’s earliest productions of comic skits around 1900. Contemporary sources describe the central gag as a mistaken soaking with a water bucket, a common prank motif in early silent comedy. Accounts note the film was shot on exterior locations rather than in a studio set. --- Public Domain / Rights: Original Release: 1900. Original Studio / Distributor: Gaumont. Copyright Status: Public Domain. Renewal: No --- Hashtags: LaConcierge AliceGuy Gaumont SilentFilm FrenchCinema 1900 PublicDomain This video was sourced from Internet Archive. Originally uploaded by jake@archive.org. https://archive.org/details/silent-la-concierge