The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (1905)
6m
Running Time
July 27, 1905Release Date
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (1905)
6m
Running Time
July 27, 1905Release Date

Plot.
'Zandvoort in an uproar! On Saturday morning at roughly 10 o’clock, with beautiful weather and calm seas, a Frenchman sat in a beach chair to gaze upon the magnificent view that the sea always affords, until he slowly began to fall asleep’ So begins a report in the ‘Zandvoortsche Courant’ of July 25, 1905. The article explains how the man was faced with the oncoming tide, and – to the amazement of the audience – took off his trousers to prevent them from being ruined by the saltwater. While trying to escape from the policeman who had rushed to the scene, he jumps into a passing car, and hides out in a small changing cabin. Eventually he's nabbed by the police. Accompanied by a band and a large crowd, he is escorted to the police station. The article ends by saying that ‘Messrs. Alberts Frères’ had staged the whole incident for a film in which two of the most popular genres of that period - the locally-shot film and the chase film – would be combined.
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Cast & Crew.

Willy Mullens
meneer Van Dommelen / Director / Producer

Albert Mullens
Director / Cinematography / Producer
Details.
Release DateJuly 27, 1905
Original NameDe mésaventure van een Fransch heertje zonder pantalon aan het strand te Zandvoort
StatusReleased
Running Time6m
Filming LocationsZandvoort, Netherlands
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
silent film
chase
Wiki.
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (Dutch: De mésaventure van een Fransch heertje zonder pantalon aan het strand te Zandvoort) is a 1905 early Dutch silent film directed by Willy Mullens, and produced by Alberts Frères. A six-minute short comedy film (really a slapstick), it is one of the oldest surviving Dutch fictional films. When the Netherlands Film Festival presented its canon of Dutch cinema (containing sixteen monumental films in Dutch film history) in 2007, it included this film.
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