The Melomaniac

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Le Mélomane

Directed by	Georges Méliès
Starring	Georges Méliès
Studio	Star Film Company
Release dates	Summer 1903^[1]
Running time	50 meters^[2]
Country	France
Language	Silent

The Melomaniac (French: Le Mélomane) is a 1903 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 479–480 in its catalogues.^[2] The film was registered for American copyright at the Library of Congress on 30 June 1903.^[2]

Méliès himself plays the lead role of the music master. The superimposition effects in The Mélomaniac required the film to be exposed seven times.^[3]

The French film scholars Jacques Malthête and Laurent Mannoni believe The Mélomaniac to be Méliès's most famous trick film.^[4]

References

↑ Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 31, ISBN 9782732437323
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 345
↑ Frazer, John (1979), Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., p. 113, ISBN 0816183686
↑ Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 147

External links

The Melomaniac at the Internet Movie Database

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