El hotel eléctrico

• Segundo de Chomón: Bertrand
• Julienne Mathieu: Laure
• Unknown performers: a porter
• Unknown performers: a house servant

El hotel eléctrico ( The Electric Hotel) is a Spanish comedy from 1908. Directed by Segundo de Chomón, who also took over the male lead.

Action

Bertrand and Laure check into a very modern hotel and want to convince themselves of the same from the technical possibilities. After pressing a few buttons, the luggage as if by magic brings into the hotel room and packed off by itself. When the two hotel guests are directed to go to bed, they can be spoiled by the electrical equipment and comb your hair. In addition, Bertrand writes his parents an automatic letter to tell them, how comfortable and easy this hotel yet. He still gets a shave if by magic, before he goes to bed.

Meanwhile, operated the hotel houseboy in a drunken state, some levers and triggers a mess from where all technical furniture moving out of control.

Background information

The film is one of the first films that deal intensively with the stop-motion technique. However, it is not the first film, which deals with this technique. As early as 1906 turned Segundo de Chomón the puppet animation film Le théâtre de Bob. In addition, several directors Georges Méliès busy with films such as Une nuit terrible using the technique of stop-motion. However, the film is the first to be implemented with the technique of pixilation.