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Le Matelas Alcoolique is a 1906 short comedy film directed by Romeo Bosetti and Alice Guy-Blaché. The film stars Romeo Bosetti as the only named actor. The story follows a drunken man who is sewn into a mattress by a maid and then is delivered to a couple who have to deal with the pains of sleeping on their uncomfortable new mattress.^[1]

Le Matelas Alcoolique survives as part of the small amount of films directed by Alice Guy-Blaché that continue to circulate in the archives.The National Film and Television Archive in London holds this film under the name The Drunken Mattress. The George Eastman House holds a second copy with the name Le Matelas Alcoolique. It can also seen being referred to as The Elliptic Mattress or Le Matelas Epileptique.^[2]

Gaines, Jane M. “World women: still circulating silent era film prints.” Framework, vol. 51, no. 2, fall 2010, pp. 283+. Gale OneFile: Fine Arts, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A241413992/PPFA?u=avl_uah&sid=bookmark-PPFA&xid=fc8060d2. Accessed 7 Dec. 2025.

“The Drunken Mattress.” IMDb, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480171/. Accessed 7 Dec. 2025.