L'innaffiatore annaffiato

A gardener is watering the garden, a hose in his hands, and the famous practical joke that exists together with a water hose is caught on film by Louis Lumière. A boy steps on the hose, waits until the gardener starts looking into the hose and lets the water go again. The gardener ends up wet in the face. This quite funny Lumière piece should have ended there, I guess, but we also get to see how the gardener gets his revenge. Slapstick was already pretty entertaining in 1895.

A fictional little film from Lumière, the first practical joke on film. I enjoyed this piece, almost a minute long, very much. Like Lumière's 'La Sortie des Usines Lumière' and 'L'Arrivée d'un Train à la Ciotat' it has its own place in the history of the cinema. Definitely worth watching!