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Méliès, Georges

Born Dec. 8, 1861, in Paris; died there Jan. 21, 1938. French actor, director, magician and theater and film entrepreneur.

Méliès was one of the founders of French and world cinema. He invented the basic techniques of modern trick photography and produced ingenious film fantasies, including A Trip to the Moon (1902), The Voyage Across the Impossible (1904), 200,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1907), and The Conquest of the Pole (1912), and screen adaptations of actual events of his time, including Sea Battle in Greece (1897) and The Coronation of Ed-ward VII (1902). Méliès made approximately 400 films. The term “Méliès tendency”in film studies refers to a vivid film production whose principal merit lies in the cinematographer’s ability to transform reality.

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Sadoul, G. Vseobshchaiia istoriia kino, vols. 1-2. Moscow, 1958. (Translated from French.)
Bessy, M., and J. M. Lo Duca. Georges Méliès, mage. Paris, 1945.
Sadoul, G. Georges Méliès. Paris, 1961.

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Rapports d'activite du Centre Culturel Francais Georges Melies de Ouagadougou de 1987 a 1999.

L'emergence de l' << artiste >> au Burkina Faso by Rousseau, Remy / Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

A view of a grave in Paris's Pere Lachaise cemetery--marked by a reclining stone figure holding up and staring at his own death mask--initiates a haphazard tour of the grounds that takes in monuments denoting the resting places of Honore de Balzac, Frederic Chopin, and filmmaker Georges Melies.

Slater Bradley: Team by Sholis, Brian / Artforum International

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: 7 FRAGMENTS FOR GEORGES MELIES MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 11, 2005-FEBRUARY 26, 2006 Born in Johannesburg in 1955, William Kentridge became internationally known in the 1990s as a creator of stop-motion animations.

Animated journeys by Zellen, Jody / Afterimage

Georges Auguste Couthon