The Clockmaker's Dream
The Clockmaker's Dream | |
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Directed by | Georges Méliès |
Starring | Georges Méliès |
Production company | Star Film Company |
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Country | France |
Language | Silent |
Le Rêve de l'horloger, sold in the United States as The Clockmaker's Dream and in Britain as The Dream of the Clock Maker, is a 1904 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 581–584 in its catalogues.[1]
Méliès plays the clockmaker in the film, which uses substitution splices and dissolves for its special effects. Méliès reused the globe prop and park backdrop in The Wonderful Living Fan, made later the same year.[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. 182–83, ISBN 2903053073
External links[]
- The Clockmaker's Dream at IMDb
Categories:
- 1904 films
- Silent films
- French black-and-white films
- Films directed by Georges Méliès
- French silent short films
- French films
- 1900s French film stubs