Georges Méliès: Cinema Magician(1978)

Georges Méliès: Cinema Magician Synopsis

Georges Méliès (1861-1938), cinema pioneer. A first-person narration traces Méliès' early interests in drawing and magic shows. He builds a studio and constructs his own camera-projector, recruits dancers from the opera and actors from the cinema to make a variety of films that tell whole stories: histories, dramas, documentaries, and ads. He moves from farce into sophisticated comedies, developing cinematic tricks (dissolves, split screens, and double exposure) to create artificially-arranged scenes. Then, the cinema passes him by, and he lives the last years of his life in poverty, selling toys out of a shop near the Montparnasse train station, with Jeanne d'Alcy his star.

Georges Méliès: Cinema Magician (1978) is a documentary film, released on January 1, 1978 with a runtime of 21m. Viewers rate it 9.0 out of 10 across 1 ratings.