Georges Melies
Series of programmes about the pioneers of moving pictures, with footage from some of the earliest known films.
This episode of the Granada TV series Moving Pictures looks at the film career of French magician George Méliès, whose fantastical films were hugely popular in the earliest days of moving pictures. The programme shows how his experience as a stage performer of magic tricks was transferred to the screen and how his purpose built glass studio was a crucible for the fairy and pantomime films that delighted the world. It includes footage from Royaume des Fées (1903), Voyage dans la lune (1902) and Après le bal (1897), the last featuring Méliès’s second wife, Jehanne d’Alcy.
Looks at the magician George Melies' contribution to early motion pictures.
His wild imagination made him the most inventive of all the film pioneers.
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Behind the Screen
Get inside the movies with these illuminating insights from the people who make them.
The movies can make us believe in magic, but what they really serve up is illusion: pull back the curtain and what's revealed is a vast enterprise of imagination, skill and invention. When it comes to feature films, a director may preside over a legion of hundreds of actors, artists and technicians.
To outsiders - that's most of us - this complex world can seem mystifying and impenetrable. So an insider's perspective is worth its weight in gold, as these rare interviews and talks by filmmakers and performers show.
19 videos in this collection
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The Set of Far from the Madding Crowd
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Robin Williams (Kelly)
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Clapperboard [24/11/80]
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The Guardian Interview: Ralph Fiennes
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MOMI Indian Cinema Interviews
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Ismail Merchant and James Ivory
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Ben Kingsley and Buzz Goodbody
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Georges Melies
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Clive Donner
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Mike Leigh and Les Blair
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Jill Craigie / Rosamond Lehmann
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Clapperboard North West [16/11/79]
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David Lean A Life in Film
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MOMI Presentation by Terry Gilliam
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The Electric Paradise
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War, Peace and Pictures: The Films of Kay Mander
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Anthony Daniels (Kelly)
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