Ou Méliès diffuse ses premiers films ?
Grand Café
1895 – Les frères Lumière, inventeurs du Cinématographe, donnent leur première représentation publique le 28 décembre au Grand Café, proche du théâtre Robert-Houdin. Georges Méliès y est convié par leur père, Antoine Lumière, photographe qu’il connaît bien.
What did Georges Méliès do for cinema?
- Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures,…
How many characters did Georges Méliès play in one film?
- For example, after experimenting with multiple exposure, Méliès created his film The One-Man Band in which he played seven different characters simultaneously. Méliès began shooting his first films in May 1896, and screening them at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin by that August.
What happened to Méliès Star Film Company?
- In 1917, the French army turned the main studio building at his Montreuil property into a hospital for wounded soldiers, confiscated over four hundred of original prints of Méliès Star Films company, melted them down to recover silver and celluloid to make heels for the army’s shoes.
What happened to Georges Méliès first wife?
- The final crisis, in 1913, was the death of Méliès’ first wife, Eugénie Génin, in May, leaving him alone to raise their twelve-year-old son, André. The war shut the Théâtre Robert-Houdin for a year, and Méliès left Paris with his two children for several years.
