A Mesmerian Experiment

A Mesmerian Experiment
Directed byGeorges Méliès
Production
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Release date
  • 1905 (1905)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

A Mesmerian Experiment (French: Le Baquet de Mesmer) is a 1905 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 693–695 in its catalogues.[1]

Méliès appears in the film Doctor Mesmer. The film has few illusions, and is mainly a vehicle for its troupe of dancers, identified in Méliès's American film catalogue as the "Snow-drops" of London's Alhambra Theatre of Variety. The film's technical effects were carried out with pyrotechnics and substitution splices.[2]

References

  1. ^ Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 349, ISBN 978-2-7324-3732-3
  2. ^ Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France, Bois d'Arcy: Service des archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie, 1981, p. 220, ISBN 978-2-903053-07-9
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