Love and Molasses

Love and Molasses,^[1][2] also known as His First Job and in French as Amour et mélasse,^[3] is a 1908 French short silent film credited to Georges Méliès. It was sold in the United States by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1246–1249 in its catalogues; no release is documented in Méliès's native France at the time.^[1]

A 1981 analysis of the film's style, published in a Centre national de la cinématographie guide to Méliès's work, concluded that this film is probably one of those directed by Méliès's employee, an actor known as Manuel.^[4] The "molasses" featured in the film is actually water; the film's special effects are worked with substitution splices.^[4]