Landing of Dreyfus at Quiberon

director: Georges Méliès

original title: Affaire Dreyfus, débarquement à Quiberon

country: France

year: 1899

running time: 1 min.

synopsis

This episode is interesting because the director uses tricks in it to create the storm that accompanied the prisoner's disembarking. Georges Méliès liked to film reconstructed events, which he called “reconstructed news”. The Dreyfus Affair belongs to this genre in the catalogue of his company Star Film, and in it he strove to capture even the smallest details of the atmosphere. When watching it in sequence, we also become aware of the rising concern for Dreyfus's fate.

biography

Georges Méliès (1861-1938) is one of the first independent film directors whose work crystalised the early film genres. He worked on fantasy scenes, adaptations of literary works, fairy tales, as well as socio-critical and political films. His documentary filmmaking is less well known, as a lot of it has not been preserved.

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Georges Méliès

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