Robinet chauffeur miope

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  • Other title(s): Robinet bijziende chauffeur
    Tweedledum, a Short-Sighted Chauffeur
  • Genre: Feature film
  • Year: 1914
  • Runtime: 00:06:39
  • Description: Tweedledum, suffering from a strong myopia, decides to take driving lessons in order to escape from boredom. After reading an announcement on the newspaper, he goes to the driving school and after paying the lessons in advance he starts to drive by the instructor’s side. A series of impossible vicissitudes starts: Tweedledum, unstoppable, destroys everything he finds on his way. The creditors go to his place to be refunded for the damages; Tweedledum, completely broken, allows them to pick all his furniture and he falls asleep on the carpet, the only piece of furniture left. The video is a copy from the film print held by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema and previously restored by the EYE Filmmuseum: 35mm, positive, acetate, 127 m, 7’ at 18 fps, colour (Desmetcolor), Dutch intertitles, silent.
  • Keywords: Robinet / miope / chauffeur / Società Anonima Ambrosio / Via Mantova 38 / Lungo Dora Firenze / Via Reggio / Tweedledum / IMediaCities / EFG1914
  • Provider: Museo Nazional del Cinema
  • Rights: In Copyright
  • Production company: Società Anonima Ambrosio, Torino
  • Colour: Black and white (toned)
  • Director: Fabre, Marcel
  • Sound: Without sound
  • Collection: Museo Nazionale del Cinema Film Collection
  • Language: nl