The Magic Lantern (1903) Georges Méliès

The Magic Lantern (French: La Lanterne magique ) is a 1903 film by • Georges Méliès is film number 520-524 in the Star Film catalog; it is a kind of homage that Georges Méliès pays to the Magic Lantern and the Commedia dell'Arte. After • Video and Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902) it is one of the earliest examples of metacinema (or would it be more accurate to say metaprecinema?).
Synopsis . (00:06) Inside the warehouse of a theater, Polichinelle and Pierrot build a magic lantern (01:23) and project the images of two young people in love on the wall. the images, however, change until they show the faces of Pierrot and Polichinelle who decide to disassemble the lantern to check its interior (03:13): some girls come out, they begin to dance and then leave the scene. (03:30) The two clowns open the lantern again and this time Harlequin and Colombina come out dancing; once they leave, Polichinelle and Pierrot disassemble the contraption once again and they discover an entire dance troupe. The two clowns then begin to argue for the attention of the prima ballerina (Zizi Papillon), but four policemen arrive (04:44), Pierrot and Polichinelle find refuge in the lantern that reveals the figure of a man who stretches up to the ceiling and manages to drive away the guards.
The film consists of a single scene/frame, although in those years filmmakers were beginning to use close-ups more and more casually, Méliès continues (and will continue until his last films) , to shoot the whole scene in a single frame. Méliès does not make use of editing except to achieve his special effects. Because of this, he is forced to adopt a trick that we will find in other films: instead of bringing the camera closer to objects to show us their details, Méliès enlarges objects, this explains the disproportionate size of the magic lantern.
Another example is found in this scene from the film Bluebeard , where Méliès, instead of making a close-up on the bloody key, prefers to enlarge it: • Barbablù (1901) George...
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What is the music please.

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Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin Macleod

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@@iconaus Thankyou so much. I have not heard it for almost 80 years and had forgot the composer. It could have been composed for this short. Magical !