The Panicky Picnic - Camille De Morlhon and Segundo De Chomn - Black and White - Silent Film - 1909

The Panicky Picnic - Camille De Morlhon and Segundo De Chomn - Black and White - Silent Film - 1909 - Film converted into Digital Format by http://linktr.ee/TheBeltwayBandits

In this early silent film a group of people go on a picnic only to find their food infested with bugs and rodents. After taking a carriage back to their residence and going to sleep one of them begins to dream as a very wide use of stop-motion is used to illustrate the dream. The film contains some very interesting effects and scenes for such an age from a dragon spitting fire to a pot turning into a clay head through stop-motion. This film was released in France in 1909 under the title, "Une excursion incohérente," and was directed by Camille de Morlhon with film work by Segundo de Chomón.