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The Spider and the Butterfly
The Spider and the Butterfly
	Production still from the film
Directed by	Georges Méliès
Starring	Georges Méliès
Production; company	Star Film Company
Release date	1909;
Running time	80 meters
Country	France
Language	Silent

The Spider and the Butterfly (French: Papillon fantastique) is a 1909 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès.

Production

Méliès plays the magician in the film.^[2]

Release and survival

The Spider and the Butterfly was released by Méliès's Star Film Company, and is numbered 1530–1533 in its catalogues.^[1]

The end of Méliès's filmmaking career was marked by mounting financial difficulties, forcing him eventually to close his studio.^[3] In 1923, Méliès discarded his collection of negative and positive prints for his films.^[4] After living forgotten and in poverty for some years, Méliès was rediscovered by film devotées in the late 1920s.^[5] On 16 December 1929,^[6] a "Gala Méliès" was held at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, reintroducing Méliès and his work to posterity.^[4]

The Gala Méliès included projection of eight Méliès films that had managed to be recovered,^[4] including The Spider and the Butterfly (the others were Whimsical Illusions, The Diabolic Tenant, The Wandering Jew [fr], A Trip to the Moon, Baron Munchausen's Dream, The Merry Frolics of Satan, and The Conquest of the Pole).^[6] After the Gala, the print of The Spider and the Butterfly went missing once again;^[6] it was presumed lost as of 2008.^[1] A fragment of the film was rediscovered in time to be included in a 2010 DVD collection of some of Méliès's films.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 355, ISBN 9782732437323
^ Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 281
^ Frazer, John (1979), Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., pp. 46–48, ISBN 0816183686
^ ^a ^b ^c Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 10
^ Frazer 1979, p. 55
^ ^a ^b ^c Cosandey, Roland (1997), "L'inescamotable escamoteur ou Méliès en ses figures", in Malthête, Jacques; Marie, Michel (eds.), Georges Méliès, l'illusionniste fin de siècle?: actes du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 13–22 août 1996, Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle, pp. 65–66, ISBN 9782878541403
^ Méliès, Georges (2010), Georges Méliès: Encore (DVD; short film collection), Los Angeles: Flicker Alley, ISBN 978-1893967564

External links

Le papillon fantastique at IMDb

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[M355-1] Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 355, ISBN 9782732437323

[2] Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 281

[3] Frazer, John (1979), Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., pp. 46–48, ISBN 0816183686

[M10-4] Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 10

[5] Frazer 1979, p. 55

[Cosandey-6] Cosandey, Roland (1997), "L'inescamotable escamoteur ou Méliès en ses figures", in Malthête, Jacques; Marie, Michel (eds.), Georges Méliès, l'illusionniste fin de siècle?: actes du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 13–22 août 1996, Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle, pp. 65–66, ISBN 9782878541403

[7] Méliès, Georges (2010), Georges Méliès: Encore (DVD; short film collection), Los Angeles: Flicker Alley, ISBN 978-1893967564

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The Spider and the Butterfly

Production

Release and survival

References

External links

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