Bob Kick, the Mischievous Kid

Bob Kick, the Mischievous Kid
Directed byGeorges Méliès
StarringGeorges Méliès
Production
company
Release date
  • 1903 (1903)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

Bob Kick, the Mischievous Kid (French: Bob Kick, l'enfant terrible) is a 1903 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 510–511 in its catalogues.[1]

Méliès plays Bob Kick in the film, which uses pyrotechnics, substitution splices, and multiple exposures to create its special effects.[2] The film is one of several of Méliès's trick films in which magical effects are used to suggest a theme of illusive female beauty.[3]

Two identical paper prints of the film, representing the film's American and French releases, survive at the Library of Congress.[4] Variant versions of the film may exist; in a 1981 guide to Méliès's films, published by the Centre national de la cinématographie, the editors reported that the ending they saw differed from the one summarized by John Frazer in his 1979 book Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès.[2]

References

  1. ^ Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 346, ISBN 9782732437323
  2. ^ a b 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, pp. 156–57, ISBN 2903053073
  3. ^ Ezra, Elizabeth (2000), Georges Méliès, Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 96, ISBN 0-7190-5395-1
  4. ^ Niver, Kemp R.; Bergsten, Bebe (1985), Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, pp. 32–33


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