Georges Méliès

    Georges Méliès

    8. detsember 1861 (164 aastat), Paris, France

    Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 - January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. One of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, tracking shots, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work, Méliès pioneered effects that would define cinematic special effects for decades to come.  A prolific innovator in the use of special effects, Méliès accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, a method of creating seamless disappearing and/or appearing effects used throughout both films and television for decades to come.  Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician". Two of his best-known films are A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. Méliès was also an early pioneer of horror cinema, which can be traced back to his Le Manoir du diable (1896).   In early 1909 Méliès stopped making films to protest Thomas Edison's Motion Pictures Parents Company monopoly, and presided over the first meeting of the International Filmmakers Congress in Paris.  Further financial hardships created by his opposition to Edison and diminishing influence, Méliès disappeared from public life. By the mid-1920s he made a meager living as a candy and toy salesma in Paris, with the assistance of funds collected by other filmmakers.  Although he was recognized for his contributions in cinema, Méliès spent most of his later years in poverty before being accepted into La Maison du Retraite du Cinéma, the film industry's retirement home in Orly.  

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    Reis Kuule plakat 7.9

    Reis Kuule

    1902
    Le Voyage à travers l'impossible plakat 7.3

    Le Voyage à travers l'impossible

    1904
    Le Voyage extraordinaire plakat 7.7

    Le Voyage extraordinaire

    2011
    The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès plakat

    The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

    2012
    Le Cauchemar plakat 6.0

    Le Cauchemar

    1896
    Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé plakat 5.7

    Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé

    1902
    Cendrillon plakat 6.2

    Cendrillon

    1899
    La Magie Méliès plakat 7.3

    La Magie Méliès

    1997
    Le manoir du diable plakat 6.4

    Le manoir du diable

    1896
    La lune à un mètre plakat 7.0

    La lune à un mètre

    1900
    Le Royaume des fées plakat 6.9

    Le Royaume des fées

    1903
    Barbe-bleue plakat 6.3

    Barbe-bleue

    1901

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