The 1904–1905 Pathé short Un coup d’œil par étage (literally “A Glance on Each Floor”) is an inventive early comedy that presents a whimsical peek into life across multiple apartments in a single building. It plays with cinematic point-of-view and narrative structure in a way that was novel at the time. The film cuts between brief vignettes on each apartment floor: a man at a phone, a pillow fight between children, an elderly lady with a cat—and finally, a resident scrambling to extinguish curtains that have caught fire. Structured as a vertical tour ("par étage"), the short runs about 6 minutes in restored screenings and was featured in retrospectives on early cinem
Release Date | February 13, 1904 | |
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Status | Released | |
Original Title | Un coup d'œil par étage | |
Runtime | 6min | |
Budget | — | |
Revenue | — | |
Language | French | |
Original Language | French | |
Production Countries | France | |
Production Companies | Pathé Frères |