Illusions fantasmagoriques

⭐ Featured Review

"As the previous reviewer has already pointed out, Georges Méliès was a magician before he became a filmmaker. So it's no wonder that he was the one responsible to bring magic into the movies. A lot of the time, he'd do set-ups like the one here: a brief little magic act (using camera tricks) on film. Méliès's magic show movies were not always special effects based (see the chromolithographic film fragment of "Conjuring" from 1896), but oftentimes they were, and this one is no different. Using splicing of the filmstrip and himself playing the magician, Méliès performs a..."