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Scenes on Every Floor (1904)
Directed by Lucien Nonguet
Comedy · 6m
The 1904–1905 Pathé short Un coup d’œil par étage (literally “A Glance on Each Floor”) is an inventive early comedy that presents a whimsical peek into life across multiple apartments in a single building. It plays with cinematic point-of-view and narrative structure in a way that was novel at the time. The film cuts between brief vignettes on each apartment floor: a man at a phone, a pillow fight between children, an elderly lady with a cat—and finally, a resident scrambling to extinguish curtains that have caught fire. Structured as a vertical tour ("par étage"), the short runs about 6 minutes in restored screenings and was featured in retrospectives on early cinem
Cast
Dranem
Félix Galipaux
Crew
- Director
- Lucien Nonguet
Details
- Original title
- Un coup d'œil par étage
- Release date
- 1904-02-13
- Runtime
- 6m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Pathé Frères