Zigoto Drives a Locomotive
- IMDb link: 0493987
- IMDb rating: 5.4 (61 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, Short
- Director: Jean Durand
- Cast: Lucien Bataille, Ernest Bourbon, Alphonse Foucher, Lonys and others
- Release date: 5 Oct 1912
- Release year: 1912
- Runtime: 6 minutes
- Country: France
- Keywords: character name in title
Plot
Storyline
Zigoto acrobatically drives a locomotive gone haywire, which runs through the city causing frenzied bedlam. One of Durand's burlesque masterpieces.
The employees of a railroad go on strike and the distracted station master, unable to run his train, engages Zigoto. Zigoto's many arts do not contain that of an engineer, but he goes ahead valiantly. Taking liberties with the lever, he starts at express speed and the locomotive leaves the straight and narrow path of its rails and runs through the village, getting over various impediments in its path, leaving a wake of destruction. After doing a good day's damage, Zigoto is finally confronted by the station master and the repentant employees, who then resume their labors, after having vented their anger upon Zigoto.
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