El hotel eléctrico is a short-film produced and directed by Fructuós Gelabert in 1908, in which a couple arrive to a hotel, check in and their luggage starts moving, opening, the content of it, clothes, etc., there is motion amongst the objects, interaction. The movie is characterized by oddness and comedy. The name of the movie (The Electric Hotel) refers to the movement that the items have, the electricity moves them, they seem to be automatized, plus the background noise (electric).
The effects of production, use of frames and a crank that generates the motion, make of this film a very advanced technology one for the time in which it was shot.
