Georges Mendel

Two friends wake up one morning to find themselves in a completely new situation.

This film by Georges Mendel uses a primitive synchronization system for the projector and phonograph. Original sound lost but recently restored.

Despite what you may read on IMDb and elsewhere, Enrico Caruso does not appear in this film though it was mimed to a recording by Caruso. Mendel’s system utilized prerecorded commercial recordings of famous artists lip-synched by look-alike actors during film shooting. The music is the sextet Chi mi frena in tal momento from Act Two of Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor which premiered in 1835.