Hôtel électrique

Hôtel électrique (also released in Spanish as El hotel eléctrico; transl.

The Electric Hotel) is a 1908 silent French[1] comedy-fantasy trick film directed by Segundo de Chomón and produced by Pathé Frères.

[2] Laure and Bertrand arrive at the Electric Hotel, where a control board allows inanimate objects to come to life.

For most of the film, the effects are used to perform tasks such as polishing shoes, styling hair and putting away luggage, to the two guests' great pleasure.

At the end, a drunken concierge erratically throws switches that cause the system to go haywire, sending all of the hotel's furniture into a jumbled, chaotic mess.

Julienne Mathieu's hair appears to brush itself, one of the first uses of stop-motion animation in film.
An excerpt from Hôtel électrique by Segundo de Chomón