The Ballet-Master's Dream

Le Rêve du maître de ballet, sold in the United States as The Ballet-Master's Dream and in Britain as The Dream of the Ballet Master, is a 1903 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 525–526 in its catalogues.[1]

Directed byGeorges Méliès
Starring
  • Georges Méliès
  • Zizi Papillon
Production
company
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

Méliès plays the ballet master; the American catalogue description credits Zizi Papillon as the eccentric dancer.[2] Papillon was a stage performer featured at the Folies Bergère[3] and at the Casino de Paris.[4] The special effects are created using substitution splices, multiple exposures, and dissolves.[2]

A paper print of the film survives at the Library of Congress.[5]

References
  1. Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 346, ISBN 9782732437323
  2. Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France, Bois d'Arcy: Service des archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie, 1981, pp. 166–67, ISBN 2903053073
  3. Karpel, Bernard (1979), Arts in America: A Bibliography, 3, Washington, D.C.: published for the Archives of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 34
  4. Prasteau, Jean, La Merveilleuse Aventure du Casino de Paris. 1975, Paris: Denoël, p. 27
  5. Niver, Kemp R.; Bergsten, Bebe (1985), Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, p. 21


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