settima

documentary

にっぽん戦後史 マダムおんぼろの生活 [Nippon Sengoshi – Madamu onboro no Seikatsu / History of Postwar Japan (Shōhei Imamura, 1970)

Jan

17

Customer Service Day

にっぽん戦後史 マダムおんぼろの生活 (1970)

Hostess Emiko Takada watching footage of US occupying forces in a movie theatre. DP: Masao Tochizawa..

Le Pétomane du Moulin Rouge [The Fart Maniac] (1900)

Jan

7

National Pass Gas Day

Le Pétomane du Moulin Rouge (1900)

Flatulist Joseph Pujol blowing out a candle with his derrière.

Witness the world famous pétomane shot on location at the Moulin Rouge (and amazingly not at Edison's Black Maria), as saved for prosperity by Edison Studios. The large trumpet-like contraption that can be seen on the left, the Edison Kinetophone, also present in The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (William Dickson, 1894/95), recorded the sound on a cylinder, that then could be played back in synch with the picture.

 

The original audio recording that accompanied this film is lost; do check your attic.