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La voltige
Michael_Elliott23 December 2016
La voltige (1895)

This here is actually a fairly rare film for the era. Most of the Lumiere Brothers films from this period are actuality films, which are basically movies where the camera just captures whatever is going on in front of it. This film here is actually set up so one could say it's an early example of a scripted movie. Basically a man is trying to get on a horse but he can't quite make it in the saddle as he either falls over the side or simply can't get up at all. By today's standards there's certainly nothing funny here but at the same time history buffs should enjoy the film for its context and how it really wasn't the normal thing for a film from 1895.
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2/10
Failed attempt at comedy
Horst_In_Translation12 October 2013
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We see a black horse and two men in white dresses. Oh wait, there's a third I didn't recognize before as his dark outfit was almost invisible with him standing in front of the equally dark horse. One of the men in white tries to climb the horse and falls down, and tries to climb it and falls down again etc. This goes on for almost the whole 45 seconds until he finally managed to stay on top of it. Unfortunately, it stopped being funny after the second time already. The black-white contrasts in this one are quite nice and it's good to see them make good use of this feature where all the visuals depended on contrasts with no colors yet available, but that's really all the positive that is to it. Lumière has done much better, also in other films from his very prolific 1895.
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8/10
Persevering in the same error leads to continuing to make mistakes
luigicavaliere16 February 2019
A man tries to get on a horse, but he climbs to one side and falls from the other, until he manages to stay in balance. Persevering in the same error leads to continuing to make mistakes , altough this appears acrobatic.
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HAHAHA!! That's funny....for 1895
Tornado_Sam23 November 2017
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The Lumiere Bros seldom filmed anything exciting or amusing, as they were much more into documentaries than anything. "Trick Riding" is entirely different. Here, the scenario is staged and is meant to be something amusing and comical. Sadly, today this doesn't even half succeed in achieving the goal it used to at all, but for the time it is simply hilarious. It features a horse and several men. One man is trying to mount the horse but keeps falling off until he finally manages to ride sidesaddle. That's it, nothing that's particularly funny today but interesting as it's simply an attempt into fiction. Many films at the time were just scenes of everyday life which is what makes this film different. (And the performance is also a bit unconvincing; note that when the guy finally looks as though he's on he lifts his leg and falls off on purpose!)
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10/10
watch this now
catpantry17 February 2020
106 times a day. I wouldn't recommend doing that. Because if you're human (and you do that) there will be an inner part of you that really doesn't want to do it. What am I talking about? Well an experiment was performed on a sloth (to watch grown ups 2 for 37 hours) and then given a survey. What kind of tattoo would you want? was one of the questions. And the response: the sloth desired an image of Tom Brady holding( in his palm) a small round earth with saddened eyes drawn on it.
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8/10
Early example of Stunt Work in Film
PCC092126 November 2022
This film, along with nine other films, were shown at a Paris, mini-film festival, by pioneering filmmakers, the Lumiere brothers, in December of 1895. Horse Trick Riders (1895) is the fourth movie, ever shown to a paying audience. It is the first ever example of stunt work in film too. It also was the first animal trick act ever shown to a paying audience. It features the first early examples of acrobatic artists doing their thing, in this case. Jumping onto a horse. It utilizes the acrobatic antics for the sake of comedy. It is a cool film to see, because of its early position in film history, but the Lumiere's really should have found better stunt men. These guys looked, kind-of, amateurish. This was so early in film history that the idea of multiple takes wasn't a thing yet. Still, for less than a minute its no worse than a YouTube video.

8.1 (B MyGrade) = 8 IMDB.
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