Séance de prestidigitation (1896) Conjuring (Méliès) [chromolithographed fragment]

Опубликовано: 10 Март 2025
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000123/
Director: Georges Méliès
Production Company: Star Film Company
Country: France
Notes: Séance de prestidigitation is notable as Méliès' second film, and as his first to move beyond the actuality film genre pioneered by the Lumière brothers and experiment with using the camera to capture a theatrical magic act. In 2014, the Cinémathèque française received a donation from the collector François Binétruy: a short fragment of a chromolithographed animated film, rotoscoped from an unidentified 1896 Méliès film and showing Méliès himself performing a conjuring trick. Such fragments of animation had been manufactured from 1897 onward in Germany and France, for home use in toy projectors. In 2015, the Cinémathèque uncovered another fragmentary home-projector version of the same film, this time reproducing the original black-and-white live-action frames. In July 2015, the film scholar Jacques Malthête identified the film as Georges Méliès' Séance de prestidigitation. The original film has not been found. See the B&W version here: • Séance de prestidigitation (1896) Co... .

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