A monkey eats a supper and prepares for bed. A burglar climbs to his apartment and starts to eat his leftovers, but the monkey awakes and magically subdues him.
This is the last directorial credit of Segundo de Chomon (although he worked as a cinematographer on several movies later in the decade). A decade and a half later he had been Gaumont's director of choice for movies to take away Georges Melies' market, but with the collapse of that sort of film by 1912, he was left at loose ends and retreated to being more and more the cameraman he had begun as. This one is done in stop-motion and will remind the viewer of WIllis O'Brien's work for Edison in 1915, although the motion is jerkier and the actions are definitely in the Melies style of magic. The competition would put paid to de Chomon as he had to his a decade earlier. Soon O'Brien's work in THE LOST WORLD would set a new standard.
This is the last directorial credit of Segundo de Chomon (although he worked as a cinematographer on several movies later in the decade). A decade and a half later he had been Gaumont's director of choice for movies to take away Georges Melies' market, but with the collapse of that sort of film by 1912, he was left at loose ends and retreated to being more and more the cameraman he had begun as. This one is done in stop-motion and will remind the viewer of WIllis O'Brien's work for Edison in 1915, although the motion is jerkier and the actions are definitely in the Melies style of magic. The competition would put paid to de Chomon as he had to his a decade earlier. Soon O'Brien's work in THE LOST WORLD would set a new standard.