Landmarks Of Early Film Vol. 2: The Magic Of Melies

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Decades before the term "special effects" was coined;audiences of the newborn cinema were witnessing spectacular screen illusions;courtesy of the medium's first master magician: Georges Melies. Melies' astounding employment of double exposure;makeup;editing and theatrical trickery still command the power to surprise and bewilder and can now be seen for the first ... time with crystal clarity in fifteen beautifully restored films;accompanied by newly composed scores. Includes the documentary "Georges Melies: Cinema Magician," plus the Melies shorts "An Impossible Voyage" (struck from an original hand-colored negative);"The Black Imp," "The Cook in Trouble," "The Living Playing Cards," and 11 more!
  • Directed by: Georges Melies
  • Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
  • Studio: Egami
 
  
 
 

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Synopsis: Decades before the term "special effects" was coined;audiences of the newborn cinema were witnessing spectacular screen illusions;courtesy of the medium's first master magician: Georges Melies. Melies' astounding employment of double exposure;makeup;editing and theatrical trickery still command the power to surprise and bewilder and can now be seen for the first time with crystal clarity in fifteen beautifully restored films;accompanied by newly composed scores. Includes the documentary "Georges Melies: Cinema Magician," plus the Melies shorts "An Impossible Voyage" (struck from an original hand-colored negative);"The Black Imp," "The Cook in Trouble," "The Living Playing Cards," and 11 more!
Directed by: Georges Melies
Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
Studio: Egami
ASIN: B000RI1CRU (Rental) and B000RI3WRI (Purchase)
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