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MAX
ET SA BELLE-MÈRE
With Max Linder, by Lucien Nonguet, production Film Pathé Frères,
1911, 20', 16mm
Copy of Museo Nazionale della Montagna - CAI-Torino
Max
Linder, pseudonym of Gabriel Leuvielle, made this film in 1910,
at the age of 27, when his fame had already brought him to sign
a contract with Pathé Frères of a million french francs a year
for the realization of one reel of slapstick per week.
The film, two reels long, is part of a group of works that Max
Linder realized on the Alps, more exactly at Chamonix: Max
fait du Ski, Max asthmatique, Max et sa belle-mère,
Max émule de Tartarin.
The
film shows an action where several snow sports, such as skating
and ski, are interwoven. As for ski, these are certainly its first
cinematographic images. It is worth pointing out that, against
the usage of their age, his slapsticks are totally shot on location
with sequences of extraordinary quality.
The
copy recently acquired by the National Museum of the Mountain
of Turin, that will be shown for the first time as one of the
major events of the Breuil-Cervinia Festival, is a complete document,
in its original version and in an excellent state of preservation.
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