L'arroseur arrosé

I quite often use this as the basis for a storyboarding exercise. 'The sprinkler sprinkled' is the first ever fiction film, and the first ever film comedy, made by the Lumiere brothers in 1895.

I quite like this piece by Laurence Price which was for a while the main description of the film on iMDB:

"L'Arroseur Arrosé is a cry from the depths of the proletariat for social emancipation, whereby the disenfranchised masses represented in a life-justifying performance as the Boy can only find justice through subversion and revolution. Indeed, the conclusion of this epic drama can been seen as a confirmation of the inherent violence in a Hegelian dialectic of class conflict; the chilling figure of the Gardener (a possible reference to ecclesiastical authority?) viciously suppresses the rights of the Boy to self-expression. The perennial nature of this conflict is undermined when both parties rush out of the "garden"; no resolution is possible except mutual annihilation."