Here is video of recently discovered footage, considered to be the world’s earliest color film:
Additional information about these first color films can be found HERE.
May Days of Melies – Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants [Le voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants] (1902)
May 14, 2012 — chrisgiddensA swift (4-minute) adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels (formally, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships), the 1726 satirical novel by Jonathan Swift. The movie is less focused on developing the plot as a narrative, and more attentive towards recreating and presenting some of the fantastic elements within the story, as alluded to by the title, Le voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants (aka Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants). The visual accomplishments of Méliès are most impressive, especially the amazing hand-painting of frames.
Music performed by Billy Duncan for Change Before Going Productions.
May Days of Melies – The Impossible Balancing Feat [L’équilibre impossible] (1902)
May 13, 2012 — chrisgiddensMéliès utilizes his newest trick, first seen in The Human Fly, combined with the spirit of The One-Man Band, resulting in a one-man gymnastics team.
May Days of Melies – The Human Fly [L’homme mouche] (1902)
May 12, 2012 — chrisgiddensMéliès reveals a brand new trick in The Human Fly (aka L’homme mouche). We’re also treated to some lovely hand-tinting.
May Days of Melies – The Treasures of Satan [Les trésors de satan] (1902)
May 11, 2012 — chrisgiddensThe treasures of Satan appear as bags of money which the devil (Méliès) hides inside a coffin. When a thief attempts to rob the coins, the moneybags come alive and are soon accompanied by beautiful women! Unfortunately, the fulfilled fantasy is short-lived as the bags held by the ladies become sharp spears, and then the devil reappears to claim his true treasure.
May Days of Melies – The Shadow Girl [La clownesse fantôme] (1902)
May 10, 2012 — chrisgiddensMéliès demonstrates that he possesses some magical items able to quickly and painlessly perform sex changes.
May Days of Melies – The Dancing Midget [La danseuse microscopique] (1902)
May 10, 2012 — chrisgiddensIn The Dancing Midget (aka La danseuse microscopique), Méliès makes his foppish assistant regurgitate 6 whole eggs, which are then cracked into a magic hat and turned into a single, larger egg. When the new egg explodes, what springs forth? Why, a tiny ballerina of course!
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