The Marvellous Wreath

La Guirlande merveilleuse, sold in the United States as The Marvellous Wreath and in Britain as The Marvellous Hoop, is a 1903 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 445–448 in its catalogues.[1]

The Marvellous Wreath
Directed byGeorges Méliès
StarringGeorges Méliès
Production
company
Release date
  • 1903 (1903)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

Méliès plays the musketeer in the film, the main special effect of which is a closeup superimposed into a circular opening by multiple exposure; Méliès used a similar effect in Alcofrisbas, the Master Magician later that year. Other special effects in The Marvellous Wreath are worked using pyrotechnics, substitution splices, and dissolves.[2]

References

  1. Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 345, 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. 116–17, ISBN 2903053073, OCLC 10506429
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