Crying and Laughing

Crying and Laughing
Directed byGeorges Méliès
Production
company
Release date
  • 1900 (1900)
Running time
20 meters[1]
(approx. 1 min.)[2]
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

Crying and Laughing (French: Gens qui pleurent et Gens qui rient) is a 1900 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 306 in its catalogues.[1]

The survival status of the film is unclear. In a 1979 book, John Frazer reported that he had seen the film in a private collection; it was a one-minute medium shot of two people together, one crying, one laughing manically.[3] However, Jacques Malthête's 2008 filmography of Méliès's work lists the film as lost.[1] In 2020, the film festival Il Cinema Ritrovato featured a one-minute film from the archives of the Centre national du cinéma, listing the film as Gens qui pleurent, gens qui rient and suggesting that it may be Méliès's film; the attribution is to "[Georges Méliès?]", with a question mark.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 342, ISBN 9782732437323
  2. ^ a b "Gens qui pleurent, gens qui rient", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Cineteca di Bologna, 2020
  3. ^ Frazer, John (1979), Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., p. 85, ISBN 0816183686


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