méliès in A Sentence

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So, Méliès built his own video camera with the help of an engineer.

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In all, Méliès astonishingly made around 500 films in just 14 years, or an average of about 1 every 10 days.

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Méliès was born in Paris in 1861 to a shoemaker, who fully expected his sons to follow in his footsteps when he retired.

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While it's thought of today as the first horror movie, Méliès meant the film to be more surprising and attention-grabbing than anything else.

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Also, of note, one of the women in the film is Jehanne D'Alcy- who would become Méliès's mistress and, later, his second wife.

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It was supposedly in the autumn of 1896 when Méliès discovered a significant trick the camera could play when it jammed up while filming.

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Science- fiction films have been around since 1902 when Georges Méliès made the film A Trip to the Moon. A later generation of young moviegoers was mesmerized by Flash Gordon.

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Hugo(film)(2011) Film directed by Martin Scorsese based on the book“The Invention of Hugo Cabret” where the great filmmaker Georges Méliès creates an automaton through which the plot of this story is unleashed.

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Despite showing an interest in stage performance at an early age, his father refused to support him in this career and, after attending school, Méliès dutifully settled into a career as a shoe maker.

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If this story all sounds familiar, perhaps you have seen the film Hugo, which is based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which in turn is loosely based on the life of Georges Méliès.

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Méliès turned the theater into a popular magic show venue, but he was always looking for an edge and, upon seeing the Lumières brothers' demonstration of their magical device that showed motion pictures, he attempted to buy it off of them.

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