The 1904â1905 PathĂ© short Un coup dâĆil par Ă©tage (literally âA Glance on Each Floorâ) 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 catâand finally, a resident scrambling to extinguish curtains that have caught fire. Structured as a vertical tour ("par Ă©tage"), the short runs about 6 minutes in restored screenings and was featured in retrospectives on early cinem
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