A Trip to the Moon
The Skipping Cheese
A Busy Cupid
Charcuterie mécanique
(The Mechanical Butcher, Lumière, France 1896, 1 min., 35mm)
Le squelette joyeux
(Lumière, France 1897, 1 min., 35mm)
Le voyage dans la lune
(A Trip to the Moon, Georges Méliès, France 1902, 13 min., 35mm)
Voyage à travers l’impossible
(Georges Méliès, France 1904, 20 min., 35mm)
Le matelas alcoolique
(The Drunken Mattress, Alice Guy, France 1906, 9 min., 35mm)
Les fromages automobiles
(The Skipping Cheese, Georges Méliès, France 1907, 4 min., 35mm)
La rose bleue
(A Busy Cupid, Léonce Perret, France 1911, 7 min., 35mm)
Tricks through Time | Silent Tuesdays. Considered the father of special effects, Georges Méliès is often seen as being in opposition with the realistic productions of the Lumière brothers. Yet the popularity of trick films didn’t escape the Lumieres’ entrepreneurial eye, and this short program invites you to delve into the magic of trick cinematography and hand-coloring techniques as used by Méliès, Lumière, and Gaumont in the flowering years of French film production.
Live piano by Philip C. Carli. Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.