Jour de Fete (1949) - (Movie Clip) Speed! Speed!

Jour de Fete (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Americans Have You Beat

Tipsy and annoyed if not despondent, rural French mail carrier Francois (first-time director, co-writer and star Jacques Tati) has just seen an American newsreel about the dazzling advances in mail delivery in America, resulting in some inspired bumbling, in Jour de Fete, 1949.

Jour de Fete (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Nature's Been Generous With Him

Director, star and co-writer Jacques Tati, in his first feature, has just been introduced as the mailman Francois in the tiny French village (the real Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre), where Guy Decomble and Paul Frankeur have arrived with their carnival, and the famous bit with the flagpole begins, in Jour de Fete, 1949.