Writing Backwards

Writing Backwards (1896)

Écriture à l'envers

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

Date of release
1896-08-30
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (26)
Runtime
1m
Director
Louis Lumière

Casting

Interesting facts

Écriture à l'envers is a 1896 French silent short film directed by Louis Lumière. The film documents the celebrated magician and music‑hall performer Félicien Trewey demonstrating his famous backward‑writing act, a specialty that had made him internationally known in the late nineteenth century. The film is listed as Vue no. 42 in the official Lumière catalogue and was photographed at the Lumière family property in La Ciotat.

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