Boucot's first idyll [Robert Saidreau - Chapter 6]

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Boucot

Unlike the previous film, the paternity of this one does not seem to be in doubt: this is another comedy intended to highlight its star, the famous comic actor of the Casino de Paris who has already shot numerous film series before the war, the most prolific of which are Babylas and Pénard.
It is undoubtedly this film that Ciné Pour Tous announces, without its title, on February 28, 1920 as being started at Eclipse studios by Saidreau.
On July 17, 1920, there is a corporate advertisement in Ciné-Journal which judges on the 31st of the same month that the photo is good and that it is a "funny comedy". We also learn that it is Saidreau who signs the script.

Louis-Jacques Boucot

An uncertain duration

La Cinématographie Française announces the presentation at the Palais de la Mutualité for Monday July 26 at 4 p.m. This allows to know its footage: 435 meters on two reels, a short film, although Ciné-Journal announces it at 700 m and that when it reached Nîmes in March 1921, it became "a comedy in 3 parts" .

The program

The complete content of the program in which the Agence Générale Cinématographique intends to release it from August 27 is as follows: a French comedy of 820 meters and a feature film with Geraldine Farrar, Shadows. The journalist from Ciné-Journal was present and presented a brief review on July 31.
But if we are to believe the Figaro of August 27, 1920 and the French action of August 28, 1920, at the premiere of the film at Marivaux (on the 27th), it is presented with Roscoe Arbuckle's The Bell Boy and Shadows.

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