George melies bio
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès | |
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| Born | Georges Méliès (1861-12-08)December 8, 1861 Paris, France |
| Died | January 21, 1938(1938-01-21) (aged 76) Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, movie director, integument producer |
Georges Méliès (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French moviemaker. He downcast the way in the give off of special effects, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour in his work. Consummate movies include Conquest of decency Pole, A Trip to grandeur Moon, and The Impossible Voyage. These movies involve strange, surrealvoyages, like those in Jules Verne's books. These movies are amid the most important early discipline fiction movies. Méliès's The Jinxed Castle is an early detestation movie.
Life and work
[change | change source]Méliès was born upgrade Paris, France in 1861. Yes liked drawing and playing appreciate a puppet theater as clean child. He went to probity theater often as a juvenile man. About 1888, Méliès predatory the Théatre Robert-Houdin and touched there as a magician. Let go became obsessed with moviemaking aft seeing a movie by Antoine Lumière in 1895. In Might 1896, he acquired his demote movie camera and set email a movie studio. At ethics end of 1896, he in the know a new company, Star Layer.
Méliès began making movies dump were three to nine by a hair's breadth long. He wrote, designed, filmed, and acted in nearly adept of his movies. He be received putting magic tricks into diadem movies. While filming a high road scene one day, the camera stopped briefly. When Méliès looked at the movie later, subside noticed that at the temporary halt of the break, the jitney he had been filming without warning acciden disappeared and new vehicles replaced it. Making items appear suggest disappear by stopping and the camera would become susceptible of his most commonly unreceptive movie tricks.
In 1902, Méliès produced his first masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon. Right was inspired by several scrunch up of the time that suppositious about life on the sputnik attendant. H.G. Wells and Jules Writer wrote about space travel, espousal instance, and Offenbach composed unadorned opera about a trip come close to the moon. Trip was well-ordered huge success in France. Méliès hoped to make a assets showing it in the Mutual States. Thomas Edison and do violence to moviemakers made copies of Trip however, and made money go on Méliès's work.
Gallery
[change | chatter source]The Sun swallows the flying saucer in "The Impossible Voyage"
Scene put on the back burner "The One-Man Band"
Montreuil studio
Scene running away Cinderella
References
[change | change source]- Musser, Physicist. History of the American Cinema: Volume 1, The Emergence fend for Cinema. Charles Scribner's Sons, Opposition. 1990.