The Doctor's Secret (1909 film)
The Doctor's Secret (French: Hydrothérapie fantastique) is a 1909 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1476–1485 in its catalogues.[1]
| The Doctor's Secret | |
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| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
| Starring | Georges Méliès |
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| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
Méliès appears in the film as the hydrotherapist. Photographic evidence suggests that the film was a new version of an unidentified Méliès film from around 1900, for which two stills survive at the Cinémathèque Française.[1] The bathtub prop was reused from Méliès's 1907 film Rogues' Tricks; special effects in the film were worked with substitution splices, stage machinery, and pyrotechnics.[2]
References
- Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 276, ISBN 9782732437323
- 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. 336–37, ISBN 2903053073
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