This rather indifferent little one-minute trick film (or a clone of it) does appear to survive and is more or less as the later Repas fantastique(1900) but less interesting. A copy from the Biblioteca Española in Madrid is available on the internet but is incorrectly (and most improbably dated 1905) and attributed to Segundo de Chomón. The film is more or less as described in the Selig catalogue but there are three people dining (not a couple and not young) and no sign of any maid. The star of the show is however the giant bottle of Scotch whose appearance on the scene is unmistakable. It is surprisingly crude for a Méliès film (far cruder than the 1900 version) and may be an inferior copy made by someone else.
Review of A Dinner Under Difficulties
