Name: The Movies Begin - The Magic of Méliès
Released: 2002-02-19

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What is The Movies Begin - The Magic of Méliès about?

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Fifteen Fantastic Works by the Cinema’s First Special Effects Wizard including the documentary Georges Méliès: Cinema Magician Decades before the term “special effects” was coined, audiences of the newborn cinema were witnessing spectacular screen illusions, courtesy of the medium’s first master magician: Georges Méliès. Such films as THE ECLIPSE (1907) and LONG DISTANCE WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHY (1908) not only demonstrate Méliès’s astounding employment of double exposure, makeup, editing and theatrical trickery but provide mesmerizing insight into the social context of his work, which blended Victorian approaches to astronomy, superstition and feminine beauty with the unnatural wonders of 20th-century technology and heavy doses of slapstick. The centerpiece of the collection is THE IMPOSSIBLE VOYAGE (1904), presented with the authentic frame-by-frame hand-coloring and narration penned by Méliès himself.

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Who appears in The Movies Begin - The Magic of Méliès?

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Cast info is available on the title page.

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What genre is The Movies Begin - The Magic of Méliès?

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How long is The Movies Begin - The Magic of Méliès?

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The Movies Begin - The Magic of Méliès has a runtime of 103 minutes.

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What year was The Movies Begin - The Magic of Méliès released?

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The Movies Begin - The Magic of Méliès was released in 2002.