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“One of the first film stars, Annabelle made her debut at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. She was a featured performer on Broadway when she was filmed by Dickson in 1894. Her Serpentine and Butterfly Dances were so popular that Dickson filmed her again for the American Mutoscope in 1896.” – Paul Spehr

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“Annabelle’s skirt dances are among the earliest artistic works in film history. Looking directly at us, she turns, crouches, extends her arms, carves the space of the frame with the multi-hued drapes attached to wands in her hands. There are no edits, no camera movements, just a graceful kinetic invocation.” — Robert A. Haller

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The post William K.L. Dickson & William Heise – Annabelle Dances and Dances – Serpentine and Butterfly Dances (1894-1897) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

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The post Georges Méliès – Jeanne d’Arc AKA Joan of Arc (1900) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In what is considered the first remake in cinema history, prolific French director Georges Méliès directs his first film, depicting a delightful afternoon among friends playing cards over a glass of beer.

It was the first film in Méliès’ prolific career, and thus is number one in his Star Film catalogue. It is a remake of Louis Lumière’s film The Messers. Lumière at Cards, which was released earlier the same year. Along with Georges Méliès himself, his brother Gaston Méliès and daughter Georgette Méliès also appear in the film.

The film, long presumed lost and was rediscovered after 1981

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The post Georges Méliès – Une partie de cartes AKA Card Party AKA Playing Cards (1896) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.

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The Pillar of Fire was the first film to be based on H. Rider Haggard’s 1887 novel She: A History of Adventure. Rather than attempting to tell the whole story of the novel, Méliès used one of its characters as inspiration for a trick film, recalling the scene in the novel in which Ayesha stands amid flames. At least six other adaptations of She were made in the silent era.

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The post Georges Méliès – La colonne de feu AKA The Pillar of Fire (1899) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new artistic creation. The transformation of a stage dance into a unique ciné-dance could only be possible in cinema – Bruce Posner

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A combination of the picture entitled “The Ballet of the Ghosts,” and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out of the surf and come to the shore, cast their draperies aside and dance a few steps of the ballet, after which they again take up their draperies, and having covered themselves, retreat into the waves.

Neptune's Daughters (1900, Frederick S. Armitage).mkv

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The post Frederick S. Armitage – Neptune’s Daughters (1900) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new artistic creation. The transformation of a stage dance into a unique ciné-dance could only be possible in cinema – Bruce Posner

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A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress – with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats – dances across water with roiling waves behind her. She holds the edges of the skirt with her hands, lifting and twirling, sometimes exposing her bloomers and a dark garter on one leg. Her style combines ballet with the exuberant kicks and twirls of a burlesque dance hall. With churning waves behind her, the water seems to wash beneath her feet. The film of the dancer, “M’lle. Cathrina Bartho” (1899), is superimposed on that of the water, “Upper Rapids, from Bridge” (1896).

A Nymph of the Waves (1900, Frederick S. Armitage).mkv

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The post Frederick S. Armitage – A Nymph of the Waves (1900) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

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The film was made in the spring of 1900. It was the first of Méliès’s films to surpass 200 meters in length, and the second (after his Cinderella the previous year) to use changes of scene, with twelve sets employed and that number of scenes, or tableaux, advertised. Cinderella was advertised as having twenty tableaux, but they were filmed on only six sets; this division of long scenes into smaller segments for advertising purposes would become Méliès’s standard practice. Joan of Arc, by contrast, was advertised with twelve scenes, one per set. The artist Charles Claudel, who also repainted the interior of the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in 1901 following Méliès’s designs, was the set painter for the film. The cameraman was Leclerc, who also worked for Méliès as the pianist at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin.

Méliès’s scenario for the film strongly emphasizes Joan’s status as a national hero of France and a martyr for the French people; the first scene, in which Joan enters leading a flock of sheep, foreshadows her eventual leading of the French army. The final scene, with its triumphal entry of Joan into heaven and her meeting God, suggests Joan’s suitability for Catholic sainthood. (Joan of Arc was beatified by the Church in 1909 and canonized in 1920.)

Most of the film is staged in Méliès’s usual theatrical style, with a stationary camera viewing the action from afar, in a long shot, as if viewing a stage spectacle from a seat in the audience. However, the eighth scene, the Siege of Compiègne, is notable for a more modern-looking visual effect: in that scene, actors move much closer to the camera, in the distance of a medium shot. This is the second example, among Méliès’s extant films, of experiments with medium shots; the first had occurred the previous year in Bagarre entre journalistes, an installment of Méliès’s series The Dreyfus Affair.

An advertisement for the film claims that “almost 500 people” can be seen in the grand parade at Orléans, an effect created by having a moderately sized group of people cross the screen from left to right, go around the north side of the studio, and re-enter, repeating the cycle several times to simulate a much larger crowd.

Georges Melies - 1900 - [Star Film 264-275] Joan of Arc.mkv

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