Rene Poyen leaves his carriage and walks to the river's edge. There he throws stones into the water, disturbing a man who is fishing; he paddles the young boy.
Poyen takes the crocodile costume from his carriage, dresses the man's dog in it, and sets the dog are. It runs to its master, who flees in terror from the fearsome beast.
It's a bit of an odd entry in the popular Bout-de-Zan series, with an air of having been made up on the spot after director Louis Feuillade was rummaging in the prop room. This was a frequent occurrence in Feuillade's movies, which seemed to have been created in an off-hand manner to take advantage of a prop or write his way out of a corner. Feuillade might take advantage of a balloon to take a letter to a mailbox, or restore a character who had been killed by pulling a twin out of a box.
Poyen takes the crocodile costume from his carriage, dresses the man's dog in it, and sets the dog are. It runs to its master, who flees in terror from the fearsome beast.
It's a bit of an odd entry in the popular Bout-de-Zan series, with an air of having been made up on the spot after director Louis Feuillade was rummaging in the prop room. This was a frequent occurrence in Feuillade's movies, which seemed to have been created in an off-hand manner to take advantage of a prop or write his way out of a corner. Feuillade might take advantage of a balloon to take a letter to a mailbox, or restore a character who had been killed by pulling a twin out of a box.
