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Georges Méliès

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Nascita
8 dicembre 1861 · Paris, France
Morte
21 gennaio 1938

Biografia

Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 - January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. One of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, tracking shots, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work, Méliès pioneered effects that would define cinematic special effects for decades to come.  A prolific innovator in the use of special effects, Méliès accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, a method of creating seamless disappearing and/or appearing effects used throughout both films and television for decades to come.  Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician". Two of his best-known films are A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. Méliès was also an early pioneer of horror cinema, which can be traced back to his Le Manoir du diable (1896).   In early 1909 Méliès stopped making films to protest Thomas Edison's Motion Pictures Parents Company monopoly, and presided over the first meeting of the International Filmmakers Congress in Paris.  Further financial hardships created by his opposition to Edison and diminishing influence, Méliès disappeared from public life. By the mid-1920s he made a meager living as a candy and toy salesma in Paris, with the assistance of funds collected by other filmmakers.  Although he was recognized for his contributions in cinema, Méliès spent most of his later years in poverty before being accepted into La Maison du Retraite du Cinéma, the film industry's retirement home in Orly.  

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Locandina di Viaggio nella Luna
Viaggio nella Luna
Film · 1902 · ★ 7,9
Locandina di La luna a un metro
La luna a un metro
Film · 1900 · ★ 7,0
Locandina di Le manoir du diable
Le manoir du diable
Film · 1896 · ★ 6,4
Locandina di Viaggio attraverso l'impossibile
Viaggio attraverso l'impossibile
Film · 1904 · ★ 7,3
Locandina di Un homme de têtes
Un homme de têtes
Film · 1898 · ★ 7,2
Locandina di L'Homme à la tête de caoutchouc
L'Homme à la tête de caoutchouc
Film · 1901 · ★ 7,1
Locandina di Visite sous-marine du Maine
Visite sous-marine du Maine
Film · 1898 · ★ 5,7
Locandina di Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin
Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin
Film · 1896 · ★ 6,2
Locandina di Cendrillon
Cendrillon
Film · 1899 · ★ 6,2
Locandina di L'homme orchestre
L'homme orchestre
Film · 1900 · ★ 6,7
Locandina di Le Cauchemar
Le Cauchemar
Film · 1896 · ★ 6,1
Locandina di Le Chaudron infernal
Le Chaudron infernal
Film · 1903 · ★ 6,3

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