A Nightmare

A Nightmare
Directed by Georges Méliès
Release dates
1896
Running time
Short
Country France
Language Silent film

A Nightmare (French: Le cauchemar) is a short silent trick film created and released in 1896 and directed by Georges Méliès. It

It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 82 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a scène fantastique.[1] The film was shot outside in the garden of Méliès's property in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, with painted scenery. Méliès plays the sleeping man.[1]

Synopsis

A man attempting tosses and turns in his sleep, and is visited by various visions which transform into each other, including a girl clad only in a sheet, a minstrel wearing black face, Pierrot, and the man in the moon, who gnaws on his arm. He wakes up tangled in his sheets but relieved that it was all just a dream.

References

  1. 1 2 Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 90, ISBN 9782732437323

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