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[A Curious Discovery]
Also known as A Great Discovery in the USA : [A Curious Discovery]
(1905) France
B&W : (length unknown)
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: (unknown)

Compagnie Genérale des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes production; distributed by Compagnie Genérale des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA as A Great Discovery (at 180 feet) by Lubin on 23 December 1905.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [From Lubin promotional materials] Unbeknown to his master an astronomer, a boy climbs up to the end of a big telescope and puts in the glass a cat and some mice. His master looking through it imagines he has made a wonderful discovery, as to the habitation of the moon and sends for a number of savants, who soon see his mistake and depart in anger, leaving the old astronomer to chastise the lad.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown) [France]; Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 4 November 2009.

References: Tarbox-Lost p. 43 : Website-AFI.

 
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