Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer | |
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Directed by | Georges Méliès |
Starring | Georges Méliès |
Production company | Star Film Company |
Release date | 1904 |
Country | France |
Language | Silent |
Le Thaumaturge chinois, sold in the United States as Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer and in Britain as The Chinese Juggler, is a 1904 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 578–580 in its catalogues.[1]
Méliès plays the conjurer of the title; his tricks are worked using substitution splices and dissolves. The motion in the film is noticeably fast, even at silent-film speeds such as 16 frames per second; Méliès may have had his camera operator deliberately the camera to create a stylized effect.[2]
References[]
- ^ Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 347, ISBN 9782732437323
- ^ 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. 193–94, ISBN 2903053073
External links[]
- Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer at IMDb
Categories:
- Silent films
- French black-and-white films
- Films directed by Georges Méliès
- French silent short films
- French films
- 1904 films
- 1900s French film stubs
- Silent French film stubs