1900 Anno Cinque: Méliès

 

Georges Méliès: Jeanne d'Arc. Pièce cinématographique à grand spectacle en 12 tableaux (1900). Tableau 11: Le supplice. La Place du Marché à Rouen. Star Film n° 274.

Méliès 1900
Bologna: Il Cinema Ritrovato: Century of Cinema: 1900
Accompagnamento al Steinway Concert Grand Piano di John Sweeney e all'arpa di Eduardo Raon.
Intermezzi di magio dal vivo, introducono Émilie Cauquy, Elena Selana e Frédéric Tabet.
Viewed at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 29 Aug 2020.

Georges Méliès: L'Homme-orchestre (1900). Star Film n° 262–263.

L’Homme-orchestre / The One Man Band.
Prod.: Star Film (n° 262–263). 35 mm. 30 m. 2’ a 16 f/s. Bn.
Director: Georges Méliès
Year: 1900
Country: Francia
Copy from BFI
    AA: The wonderful Méliès classic revisited. Print from a duped but ok source.

Georges Méliès: Rêve de Noël (1900). Star Film n° 298–305.

Rêve de Noël / The Christmas Dream
Prod.: Star Film (n° 298–305). 35 mm. L.: 90 m. (incompleto, l. orig.: 160 m). D.: 5’ a 16 f/s. Bn.
Director: Georges Méliès
Year: 1900
Country: Francia
Copy from BFI
    AA: This enchanting Christmas dream with several fairy-tale characters takes place in a gentle snowfall.

Jeanne d'Arc. Pièce cinématographique à grand spectacle en 12 tableaux / Joan of Arc .
Georges Méliès
Prod.: Star Film (n° 264–275). DCP. Col. (from a hand-colored nitrate positive print).
Director: Georges Méliès
Year: 1900
Country: Francia
11'
Copy from La Cinémathèque française
    AA: See photo above. I blogged about this wonderful print of Jeanne d'Arc in Pordenone in 2014.

Gens qui pleurent, gens qui rient / Crying and Laughing.
Prod.: [Star Film (n° 306)?]. 35 mm. L.: 20 m. D.: 1’ a 16 f/s.
Director: [Georges Méliès?]
Year: [1900?]
Country: Francia
Copy from CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée – Direction du Patrimoine Cinématographique)

Georges Méliès: Les Miracles du brahmine (1900). Star Film n° 237–240. Georges Méliès as the Brahmin, Jehanne d'Alcy as the lady in the middle. My scan from: Catalogue raisonné : L'œuvre de Georges Méliès (Jacques Malthête et Laurent Mannoni, La Cinémathèque française, 2008). Please click on the image to enlarge it!

Les Miracles du brahmine / The Miracles of the Brahmin
Prod.: [Star Film (n° 237–240)]
Director: Georges Méliès
Year: 1900
Country: Francia
    AA: In an Indian palace, a Rajah enters accompanied by his ladies. A Brahmin comes to greet the rajah and begins his miracles by animating the three Buddhist deities, then makes them resume their initial form. Taking his travel stick as a pivot point, he rises from the ground and remains suspended in space. Hovering back to the ground, he conjures three priestesses on a platform, which he isolates from the ground; they remain suspended in the air and disappear like shadows. He himself disappears in a cloud of smoke.

Georges Méliès: Spiritisme abracadabrant (1900). Star Film n° 293

Spiritisme abracadabrant / Up-to-Date Spiritualism.
Prod.: Star Film n° 293. DCP. Col. (from a hand-colored nitrate positive print).
Director: Georges Méliès
Year: 1900
Country: Francia
1'
Copy from La Cinémathèque française
    AA: Haunted by a poltergeist, jumping and running.

Georges Méliès: La Chrysalide et le papillon d'or (1900). Star Film n° 332–333

La Chrysalide et le papillon d’or / The Brahmin and the Butterfly.
Prod.: Star Film n° 332–333. DCP. Col. (from a hand-colored nitrate positive print).
Director: Georges Méliès
Year: 1900–1901
Country: Francia
2'
Copy from La Cinémathèque française
    AA: A Brahmin conjures a giant caterpillar into a butterfly princess, and she transforms the Brahmin into a caterpillar. With scissor and paper, elaborate cut-outs emerge, and they in turn transform into living butterflies.

Georges Méliès: Le Savant et le chimpanzé (1900–1901). Star Film n° 317. My scan from: Catalogue raisonné : L'œuvre de Georges Méliès (Jacques Malthête et Laurent Mannoni, La Cinémathèque française, 2008). Please click on the image to enlarge it!

Le Savant et le chimpanzé / The Doctor and the Monkey.
Prod.: Star Film (n° 317). DCP. Bn.
Director: Georges Méliès
Year: 1900–1901
Country: Francia
2'
Copy from Lobster Films
    AA: A test monkey of a scientist goes wild and wreaks havoc.

Georges Méliès: Les Infortunes d’un explorateur ou les momies récalcitrantes (FR 1900). Star Film n° 244.

Les Infortunes d’un explorateur ou les momies récalcitrantes
Prod.: Star Film n° 244. DCP. D.: 17’’ (incompleto, l. orig.: 20 m). Bn.
Director: Georges Méliès
Year: 1900–1901
Country: Francia
Copy from Lobster Films
    AA: A brief flash of an archaeologist entering a sarcophagus.

AA: A wonderful live magic show performance by Émilie Cauquy, Elena Selana and Frédéric Tabet with John Sweeney at Steinway Concert Grand Piano and Eduardo Raon playing the harp. During the intervals we saw a suite of vintage 1900 drawn and painted production stills from Georges Méliès advertisements. After a hot week, having worn a face mask all the time, including during the morning-till-night screenings, I had a moment of exhaustion during this very show.

Georges Méliès: "Biberon Robert le meilleur" [Baby Bottle Robert the Supreme] (vers 1900). Bande publicitaire. Photo de plateau. Tirage sur papier argentique. 12,1 x 16.8 cm. CNC. P382-054. From: three films for Le biberon "Robert". From: Bandes publicitaires, 11 photos de plateau, Number 7. Georges Méliès est à droite. My scan from: Catalogue raisonné : L'œuvre de Georges Méliès (Jacques Malthête et Laurent Mannoni, La Cinémathèque française, 2008). Please click on the image to enlarge it!