Around a Cabin

Name: Around a Cabin
Genre: Animation
Released: 1894-12-15
Duration: 2 min
Rating: 6.9

1894·Animation·2m

6.9

★

The film consists of a series of animations on a beach containing two beach huts and a diving board. Two characters play at diving into the water from the diving board and then appear on the beach. The woman begins to play with a small dog and is then joined by a gentleman. The two play around on the beach before getting changed into bathing costumes and going into the water. They bob up and down in the water before swimming out of the scene. Once the couple have gone a man sails out in a boat.

Directed by Émile Reynaud

19th century

short film

les pantomimes lumineuses

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Émile Reynaud

Director

Émile Reynaud

Writer

Émile Reynaud

Screenplay

Émile Reynaud

Animation

Popular Reviews

39 reviews

Mar Arancon

7.0★ · 05/03/26

this 2-min clip means a lot to me. i couldn't even possibly imagine how 1894 summer became so magical for them. it was like a window into a moment that never really existed the way films do now. there’s something almost haunting about how Émile Reynaud captured a version of summer that feels warm, playful, and strangely alive, even though it was hand-painted frame by frame.

Axel Wilsborn

8.0★ · 04/30/26

It’s cool to see Reynard’s work evolving from the repetitive animation of the 1870s to a more story based style in the 1890s

Skipp

One of the most popular tropes in animation is "the beach episode." It's where the main characters of a series go to the beach and wacky hijinks ensue. It's probably most popular in Japan, where it seems that every anime does at least one. Little did we all know that a Frenchman invented the concept all the way back in 1894.

Jackson Hamil

6.0★ · 12/07/25

what the fuck is that waist

Gamias

6.0★ · 09/26/25

I guess it was funny for the time but nothing special. I expected more from the creator of Poor Pierrot.