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The Black Imp

19054 minFrance
ComedyFantasy

Synopsis

A mischievous imp occupies a hotel room before a respectable guest arrives. Furniture changes position, appears and disappears, making the room impossible to settle into. The unseen cause of the disruption finally reveals itself to the astonished occupants.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
3:56
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Georges Méliès · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsGeorges Méliès

Behind the scenes

Méliès plays the guest and organizes an exceptionally dense sequence of substitution edits. Repeated changes to chairs and other furniture make ordinary objects the active agents of the comedy.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

  • 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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