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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1327

The Rajah's Dream

19002 minFrance

Synopsis

A sleeping ruler is disturbed by a butterfly and drawn into a world of shifting scenery. Moving furniture, threatening creatures and dancing figures repeatedly frustrate his efforts to restore order.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 2:19
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

DirectorsGeorges Méliès

Behind the scenes

The film was sold in both black-and-white and hand-coloured versions. Its changing spaces and objects belong to Méliès's practice of making a dream an excuse for successive visual transformations.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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