A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.Read More »
Jehanne d’Alcy
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Georges Méliès – Jeanne d’Arc AKA Joan of Arc (1900)
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Georges Méliès – Barbe-bleue AKA Bluebeard (1901)
Georges Méliès1901-1910FantasyFranceSilentThe Birth of Cinema
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A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.Read More » -
Georges Méliès – La colonne de feu AKA The Pillar of Fire (1899)
Georges Méliès1891-1900FantasyFranceSilentThe Birth of Cinema
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A devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.Quote:
The Pillar of Fire was the first film to be based on H. Rider Haggard’s 1887 novel She: A History of Adventure. Rather than attempting to tell the whole story of the novel, Méliès used one of its characters as inspiration for a trick film, recalling the scene in the novel in which Ayesha stands amid flames. At least six other adaptations of She were made in the silent era.Read More » -
Georges Méliès – Jeanne d’Arc AKA Joan of Arc (1900)
Georges Méliès1891-1900DramaFranceSilentThe Birth of Cinema
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A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.Read More »