{"id":22007,"date":"2022-09-21T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22007"},"modified":"2022-09-24T13:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T12:23:49","slug":"georges-melies-mage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/09\/21\/georges-melies-mage\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s, Mage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s: magician. Yes, indeed. I was watching Martin Scorsese’s Hugo<\/em> again recently, a film I found more enjoyable the second time around mostly for the M\u00e9li\u00e8s side of the story. The flashback to the Star Films studio offers in miniature a history that this book delivers in detail. Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s, Mage<\/em><\/a> (1945) by Maurice Bessy and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca is a copiously illustrated guide to M\u00e9li\u00e8s’ entire career, beginning with his early years as a conjuror and a creator of the kinds of theatrical fantasies that formed the basis for his first films. The text is in French throughout but there’s a wealth of pictorial material, with many production sketches and drawings that show how some of his more complex effects were achieved.<\/p>\n

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One of the things I’ve always found attractive about M\u00e9li\u00e8s’ films is the way they resemble 19th-century illustrations brought to life. The same can be said about some of the later Hollywood productions, especially the Douglas Fairbanks Thief of Bagdad<\/em>, but they lack the overt theatricality of M\u00e9li\u00e8s. For a taste of those hand-tinted marvels, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s: magician. Yes, indeed. I was watching Martin Scorsese’s Hugo again recently, a film I found more enjoyable the second time around mostly for the M\u00e9li\u00e8s side of the story. The flashback to the Star Films studio offers in miniature a history that this book delivers in detail. Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s, Mage (1945) by Maurice … Continue reading “Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s, Mage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s, Mage","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,12450,21,7,20,46],"tags":[1662,12449,409,12448],"class_list":["post-22007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-conjuring","category-fantasy","category-film","category-science-fiction","category-theatre","tag-georges-melies","tag-joseph-marie-lo-duca","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-maurice-bessy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5IX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}