Benoît Duval

Benoit Duval probably the first child film performer who was a apprentice from the Lumiere factory in Lyon, France, was asked by the pioneering film director Louis Lumiere to star in 'Table Turned on the Gardener' Benoit played the gardener's son who slyly puts his foot on the hosepipe, the flow of water stops, the gardener peers into the nozzle then the boy withdraws his foot then gardener is drenched, boy laughs, gardener played by Francois Clerc who was a genuine gardener, another Lumiere employee.