| The Mermaid | |
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.jpg) A frame from the film | |
| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
| Starring | Georges Méliès |
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| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
The Mermaid ( French: La Sirène) is a 1904 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 593–595 in its catalogues. [1]
Méliès himself plays the gentleman in the film. The special effects include stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution splices, multiple exposures, dissolves, and what reads as a traveling shot (though in fact it is the action wheeling toward the camera, not the reverse). [2] Film critic William B. Parrill suspects this film's visuals influenced Vasili Goncharov's The Water Nymph (1910). [3]
References
- ^ Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès (in French), Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 348, ISBN 9782732437323
- ^ Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France (in French), Bois d'Arcy: Service des archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie, 1981, pp. 199–200, ISBN 2903053073
- ^ Parrill, William B. (2011), European Silent Films on Video: A Critical Guide, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, p. 475, ISBN 9780786464371
External links
- The Mermaid at IMDb
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