"Amor Pedestre" (1914) was part of a series of comic films directed by and starring Marcel Fabre (aka Marcel Perez) as the protagonist, Robinet. In Amor Pedestre, he sets out on his morning walk and encounters a young lady he immediately attempts to woo. Despite her lack of interest, he closely follows her into a tramway and around the streets of a big city. While the plot of Fabre's silent film is a typical bourgeois story of an illicit love affair and subsequent revenge, what makes it unique is the angle in which the film was shot. The director's decision to capture on celluloid the legs and feet of his actors, rather than their entire bodies (and faces) is a coup-de-génie. Clearly experimenting with the possibilities that the new invention of cinema was offering, almost a hundred years later Fabre's film remains a fresh vision." Marcel Fabre (Marcel Perez) was born in 1885 in Madrid, Spain as Marcel Fernández Peréz. He was an actor and director, known for The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913), Amor Pedestre (1914) and It's a Great Life (1918). He was married to Dorothy Earle. He died in 1927 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Marcel Perez appeared in the comedy reels "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum". His wife Dorothy Earle was the "Tweedle Dee" character. They had a son: Marcel Perez Jr. (Marty) in 1920. Produced by Arturo Ambrosio (Societa Anonima Ambrosio). 113 m length. New soundtrack and dubbing: CinemaHistoryChannel Music: Kevin Mac Leod (incompetch.com) licensed under Creative Commons licence: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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