Between Calais and Dover
| Between Calais and Dover | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
Release date | 1897 |
Running time | Short |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent film |
Between Dover and Calais (French: Entre Calais et Douvres), also known as Between Calais and Dover, is an 1897 short silent film directed by Georges Méliès.
It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 112 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a scène comique à bord d'un paquebot.[1]
The film was filmed outside in the garden of Méliès's property in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, with painted scenery. The rolling motion of the ship was created by a special articulated platform, built by Méliès for Sea Fighting in Greece the same year.[1] The set of the film includes a trademark with the initials "M.R.," referring to Méliès and Lucien Reulos, a colleague who was then Méliès's business partner.[2]
The film features Méliès himself as the man in the checked suit; Georgette Méliès, his daughter, as the little girl with the doll; and Joseph Grapinet, a sculptor from Montreuil, as the man with binoculars.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 92, 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, p. 52, ISBN 2903053073, OCLC 10506429