''Coppelia, the Animated Doll'' (french: Coppelia ou la Poupée animée) was a 1900 French

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silent film by

Georges Méliès Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (; ; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French illusionist, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well known for the use of ...

. It was sold by Méliès's

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and is numbered 307–308 in its catalogues. The film is modeled on the 1870 ballet '' Coppélia'', which itself is loosely based on

E. T. A. Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. Penrith Goff, "E.T.A. Hoffmann" in E ...

's story "

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". The ballet —probably acting alongside the version of the same story in Jacques Offenbach's '' The Tales of Hoffmann''— inspired Méliès on numerous occasions, including a stage illusion at his Théâtre Robert-Houdin as well as various others of his films, such as '' An Up-to-Date Conjuror'' (1899) and '' Extraordinary Illusions'' (1903). ''Coppelia, the Animated Doll'' is currently presumed

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* French black-and-white films Films directed by Georges Méliès French silent short films Films based on The Sandman (short story) 1900s French films {{1900s-France-film-stub