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The Bewitched Inn

18972 minFrance
ComedyFantasy

Synopsis

A traveler enters an inn hoping to settle down for the night, but every object seems determined to resist him. Luggage vanishes, boots move by themselves and even the bed refuses to remain in place. His increasingly irritated attempts to rest become a chain of magical practical jokes.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
2:03
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Georges Méliès · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsGeorges Méliès

Historical context

Méliès develops a familiar variety-stage premise into a film governed by animated objects and sudden substitutions. The troublesome hotel room became a recurring setting for his trick comedies.

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  • Georges Méliès — Georges Méliès; Publicity materials for an exhibition at La Caixa Foundation: http://press.lacaixa.es/socialprojects/exhibiton-georges-melies-magic-of-cinema-caixaforum-barcelona-eng__816-c-17952__.html · Public domain

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