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Deep into a vast cavern of the pitch-black inferno, a couple of professional dancers demonstrate the cakewalk that is currently so much in vogue, and now, everyone in the once-gloomy underworld is doing the crazy dance. Who is the best?

Georges.Méliès.Le.Cake.-Walk.Infernal.aka.The.Infernal.Cakewalk.1903.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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The post Georges Méliès – Le cake-walk infernal AKA The Infernal Cakewalk (1903) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput, the inhabitants of which are no more than six inches tall. He later travels to Brobdingnag, a country populated by giants.

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Méliès himself plays Gulliver in the film. The visual differences of scale between Gulliver and the countries he visits were created using multiple exposures and miniature models; Méliès uses substitution splices and careful exposure design to merge the various elements and give them a sense of apparently seamless action. Some scenes were filmed outdoors, in Méliès’s garden in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, so that the camera could be far away enough from the Lilliputians to make them look small.

Georges Melies - 1902 - [Star Film 426-429] Gulliver's Travels [WEB 576p].mkv

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The post Georges Méliès – Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants AKA Gulliver’s Travels (1902) 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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A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

Georges Melies - 1901 - [Star Film 361-370] Bluebeard.mkv

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The post Georges Méliès – Barbe-bleue AKA Bluebeard (1901) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

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Méliès appears in the film as both the apothecary and his duplicate head. To create the illusion of the expanding head, Méliès first filmed the surrounding action on the laboratory set. Then he surrounded his head with a black background and used a specially built ramp to move himself, sitting in a pulley-controlled chair, gradually closer to the stationary camera. Using distance calculations made in advance, an assistant refocused the camera lens in real time as the head moved, so that Méliès’s face would remain in focus throughout. Méliès chose to move himself toward the camera, rather than the other way around (as in the technique later named the tracking shot), to ensure that his head would appear to be sitting on the tabletop and would stay aligned with it throughout the growing process.

Méliès’s camera recorded the expanding head directly onto the same piece of film negative on which the laboratory action was shot, creating a multiple exposure in which the head was superimposed on the blank area of the set. The movement of the chair back and forth on the ramp was carefully timed to match the pre-recorded action. The other special effects used in the film are substitution splices and pyrotechnics.

Georges Melies - 1901 - [Star Film 382-383] The Man With the Rubber Head.mkv

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The post Georges Méliès – L’homme à la tête en caoutchouc AKA The Man with the Rubber Head (1901) 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

Georges Melies - 1896 - [Star Film 1] Card Party.mkv

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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.

Georges Melies - 1899 - [Star Film 188] The Pillar of Fire.mkv

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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.