Jumping the Blanket (1895) User Reviews

40 forgettable seconds

[Horst_In_Translation · 2/10 · 12 October 2013]

We see a whole bunch of men holding a blanket and one man starts running towards them and jumps in. This procedure repeats itself a couple times and the man becomes seemingly more adapted to the scene as it goes on. He manages a role and somersault here and there, but it's really nothing spectacular to watch for the viewer and it's inferior to most of the athlete- or artist-related short films from the late 19th century. Only one to watch for the most hardcore silent film enthusiasts and Louis Lumière himself has done better on uncountable occasions as well. The viewer certainly does not have half as much fun as the protagonist in this video, probably even much less than the guys holding the blanket for him.

Jump onto the blanket!

[kraufte_dasbot · 7/10 · 1 March 2009]

In this 41 seconds long film we see four men stand holding a couverture(blanket in french) while a fifth man wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man is seeing running toward them trying to jump onto it. He is trying this unsuccessfully twice in a row failing to jump high enough onto the blanket. On the third attempt he is able to jump and spin in the air, nearly clearing in the blanket. His fourth attempt is a successful one and he rolls on the blanket and land on his feet at the other side of the blanket. Then he runs for a final attempt but he gets stuck in the blanket even the four men attempts to help him. This is quite amusing but nothing else happens because this film like any other Lumiere Films is a very old film and should be viewed from a historical perspective!

Don't Trip Over That Blanket

[PCC0921 · 7/10 · 26 November 2022]

This film, along with nine other films, was shown at a Paris, mini-film festival, by pioneering filmmakers, the Lumiere brothers, in December of 1895. Those crazy, whacky acrobats from Lumiere's earlier film, Horse Trick Riders (1895), shown during the mini-festival, about four minutes before this film, return here for the 1895 version of a sequel, in Jumping the Blanket (1895). Four guys hold onto a blanket and a fifth guy... jumps over it. Home movies for paying customers in the eighth movie ever shown to an audience for a fee. One of the first ever films needing a better acrobat instructor. It looks more like an embarrassing home movie with the drunk neighbors, but it was one of the first motion pictures ever made and that is saying something.

6.7 (C- MyGrade) = 7 IMDB.

class A film

[catpantry · 10/10 · 13 February 2020]

Psychologist Sigmund Freud analyzed this for one of his college assignments. His roomate was a football player (who happened to walk in their dorm room wearing his football uniform when this film was on).

Jumping the Blanket

[Michael_Elliott · 23 December 2016]

Le saut à la couverture (1895)

This French film is also known as JUMPING THE BLANKET and that's pretty much what you see. The camera is stationed with a group of men holding a blanket. Another man then starts running and jumps over and on the blanket several time. Obviously you're watching an actuality movie so one shouldn't expect any sort of plot or anything like that. The main draw to this film is the fact that you're watching a form of entertainment that was obviously done back in the day so it's fascinating getting to see them play it. There's obviously nothing ground-breaking here but fans of the genre should enjoy this for what it is.

A Different Kind of Entertainment

[Tornado_Sam · 23 November 2017]

While the Lumiere Bros were known for their actualities, they did, however, turn out a few brief comedies that when viewed today cannot be considered funny due to the fact that these kinds of one-gag ideas just don't work anymore. But for the time, it was a laugh. "Jumping the Blanket" is just that. It consists of a single scene in which four men holding a blanket have a guy trying to jump over it. The guy fails at first then starts doing some somersaults on it. Extremely unfunny be today's standards but an absolute laugh riot for the time. Different kind of entertainment, instead of just watching the movement in awe we actually have something meant to be fun.