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Tati in LIFE – November 1958

Why stop there with the Tati images? LIFE Magazine has hosted on Google a wonderful series of photos of Jacques Tati wandering around New York from a November 1958 issue. The photos are a sort of reverse Play Time, with Tati, dressed in character as Monsieur Hulot, as a tourist in America, rather than guiding an American tourist in Paris. Remarkably, some of the images of the urban landscape are strikingly similar to moments in Play Time, which wasn't released until nine years later.

Jacques Tati dropping apples on the floor.

Jacques Tati looking at the high ceiling of an office lobby.

Jacques Tati looking at a sculpture.

Jacques Tati comically getting out of a cab.

Jacques Tati overlooking the construction of an office building.

The complete set of photos is here.

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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 at 11:02 am

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