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Title: Debuts D'Un Aeronaute |
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Description: Les Debuts D'Un Aeronaute was a 165 minute comedy filmed in Paris, and released in 1907. In the film, the young aeronaut (played by Max Linder) goes up in the balloon, rising majestically from the center of the crowd. The ascent is unproblematic yet the aeronaut fears that the landing may be difficult. As the balloon releases its anchor, the basket begins to swing madly. A beautiful girl from the crowd tries to settle the swinging balloon. A solider, desiring to intervene, becomes caught on the balloon’s anchor and hangs in mid-air. Caught in mid-air the solider hangs on as the balloon continues to soar causing further disasters. The balloon destroys everything in its pathway walls, carrying kiosks, and tearing roofs. The terrified public looks up at the sky wondering if a hurricane or a storm has come from the sky. Finally the balloon catches in a tree branch and the young balloonist free from danger is prey to the disgruntled crowd. Les Debuts D’un Aeronaute was produced by the famous French film company, Cinematographie Pathe. Pathe’s emblem is the rooster seen in the lower right hand corner of the poster. The film stars Max Linder, the great French comedian to whom Chaplin acknowledges a debt. Linder made his debut with Pathe in 1905, and then in 1907 as the aeronaut in Les Debuts D’un Aeronaute. |
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