An Hallucinated Alchemist
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| L'hallucination de l'alchimiste | |
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| Directed by | Georges Méliés |
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Running time | 20 meters (approx. 1.1 minutes)[1] |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
An Hallucinated Alchemist (French: L'hallucination de l'alchimiste),[2] also known as The Alchemist's Hallucination,[1] is an 1897 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliés. This film is lost. The videos online are not this film, but actually of The Mysterious Retort (1906).
Plot
[edit | edit source]The film features a star with five female heads and a giant face that has people coming out of its mouth.[citation needed]
Production
[edit | edit source]The sets were hand painted.[3]
Release and influence
[edit | edit source]The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 95 in its catalogues. The film is currently presumed lost.[2]
The 1900 Edison Manufacturing Company short The Clown and the Alchemist, directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith, may have been inspired by this film.[4]
References
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Categories:
- 1897 films
- 1897 horror films
- Films directed by Georges Méliès
- Lost horror films
- French black-and-white films
- Lost French films
- French silent short films
- 1890s lost films
- 1897 short films
- French silent horror films
- 1897 French films
- Trick films
- 1890s French film stubs
- Pre-1960 horror film stubs
- Pre-1900 film stubs