Georges Méliès Shorts (France, 1897–1906)

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“Cinema will perhaps have to wait centuries more before finding another genius whose childlike soul will, like Méliès, make light of its phantasmagorias.”—Henri Langlois

The father of cinema, the delicate clockmaker of so many subtle mechanisms, the inventor of all the special effects and processes, fascinated by extravaganzas and miraculously freed from the laws of gravity, was a marvelous draughtsman and an admirable colorist . . . (Georges Méliès) was the genius who managed to conjure cinematographic art out of nothing, transforming a machine intended for recording reality into a box of magic from which gushed the impossible.

Après le bal, le tub (1897, 1 min, Silent, Hand-painted color, DCP)

L’illusionniste fin de siècle (1899, 1:30 mins, Silent, Hand-painted color, DCP)

La chrysalide et le papillon d’or (1900, 2:30 mins, Silent, Hand-painted color, DCP)

Le royaume des fées (1903, 17 mins, Silent, Hand-painted color, DCP )

Le merveilleux éventail vivant (1904, 5 mins, Silent, Hand-painted color, DCP)

Le raid de Paris-Monte-Carlo en automobile (1905, 11 mins, Silent,Hand-painted color, DCP)

Le bourreau turc (1904, 3 mins, Silent, Hand-painted color, DCP)

La fée carabosse (1906, 12 mins, Silent, Hand-painted color, DCP)

Parlons cinema—A propos du cinéma dans la résistance (excerpts) (Harry Fischbach, Canada, 1976, 5 mins)

The films come from private collections and those of Madeleine Malthête-Méliès, who generously donated her husband’s nitrate films to La Cinémathèque française. The handpainted films were restored by La Cinémathèque française in 2013 with the Eclair Group.

Total running time: 58 mins

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