Faust and Marguerite (1904 film)
| Faust and Marguerite | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
| Based on | Faust by Charles Gounod |
| Produced by | Georges Méliès |
| Starring | Georges Méliès |
| Music by | |
Production company | |
Release date | 1904 |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
Damnation du docteur Faust, released in the United States as Faust and Marguerite and in the United Kingdom as Faust, is a 1904 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès.
Production
The film is a fifteen-minute condensation of Faust, an 1859 opera by Charles Gounod based on the Faust legend.[1] The previous year, Méliès had used a different musical version of the legend, Hector Berlioz's La damnation de Faust, as inspiration for his film The Damnation of Faust.[2]
Méliès took the role of
Special effects in the film were created with stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution splices, superimpositions, and dissolves.[2]
Release
The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 562-574 in its catalogues.[1] The film was advertised in France as a pièce fantastique à grand spectacle en 20 tableaux (d'après le roman de Goethe), and in America as "A New and Magnificent Cinematographic Opera in 20 Motion Tableaux."[1]
A piano score of selections from the opera was sold with the film. According to recollections made in 1944 by Paul Méliès, Georges Méliès's nephew, it was his father
A copy of the film, apparently missing some scenes, survives in the Paper Prints collection at the Library of Congress. A short fragment of a hand-colored print of the film, featuring the fifteenth and sixteenth tableaux (Walpurgis Night and the Ballet of Celebrated Women) survives in an English private collection.[2]
References
- ^ ISBN 9782732437323
- ^ OCLC 10506429
- ^ Wemaere, Séverine; Duval, Gilles (2011), La couleur retrouvée du Voyage dans la Lune (PDF), Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage, p. 165, archived from the original (PDF) on 11 November 2011, retrieved 19 December 2014
External links
- Faust and Marguerite at IMDb
