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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1451

Unexpected Fireworks

19053 minFrance

Synopsis

Young pranksters surround a sleeping drunk with fireworks taken from a shop. He wakes into an eruption of smoke and noise, unable to understand the spectacle arranged around him.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 2:59
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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

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Wikimedia Commons · Georges Méliès · Public domain

DirectorsGeorges Méliès

Inspirations

The idea came from a dream described by Méliès's young son André. Méliès plays the victim and combines practical fireworks with substitution cuts.

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