The Melomaniac

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Le Mélomane
Directed byGeorges Méliès
StarringGeorges Méliès
Production
company
Release date
Summer 1903[1]
Running time
50 meters[2]
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

The Melomaniac (French: Le Mélomane) is a 1903 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès.

Plot

A music master leads his band to a field where five

musical staff. He then uses copies of his own head to spell out the tune for "God Save the King
," and his band joins in.

Production and release

Méliès himself plays the lead role of the music master. The superimposition effects in The Mélomaniac, allowing multiple Méliès heads to appear on the staff, were created by a multiple exposure technique requiring the same strip of film to be run through the camera seven times.[3] The rest of the film's special effects were created with substitution splices.[4]

The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 479–480 in its catalogues.[2] The film was registered for American copyright at the Library of Congress on 30 June 1903.[2]

The French film scholars Jacques Malthête and Laurent Mannoni believe The Mélomaniac to be Méliès's most famous

Centre national de la cinématographie judges that the film merits that position.[4] Film critic William B. Parrill rates it "innovative and creative".[6]

References

  1. ISBN 9782732437323
  2. ^ a b c Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 345
  3. ISBN 0816183686
  4. ^
    OCLC 10506429
  5. ^ Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 147
  6. ^ Parrill, William B. (2011), European Silent Films on Video: A Critical Guide, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, p. 474

External links
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