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The Very First Comics-To-Film Adaptation – L'Arroseur Arrosé From 1895

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L'arroseur Arrosé is the first comedy film.  It is the first fictional story on film. Directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring François Clerc and Benoît Duval, here it is in its entirety – of forty-nine seconds.

And now it seems it is also the first film based on a comic. This is a strip by Hermann Vogel from 1887, L'Arroseur, on display at Angoulême's Comic Museum.

The Very First Comics-To-Film Adaptation – L'Arroseur Arrosé From 1895

It has the distinction of being the earliest known instance of film comedy, as well as the first use of film to portray a fictional story. The film was originally known as "Le Jardinier" (The Gardener) or "Le Jardinier et le petit espiègle", and is sometimes referred to in English as "The Tables Turned on the Gardener", and "The Sprinkler Sprinkled".

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