''An Hallucinated Alchemist'' (french: L'hallucination de l'alchimiste),
also known as ''The Alchemist's Hallucination'',
was an 1897 French short silent film directed by
Georges Méliés. This film is lost. The videos online are not this film, but actually ''
The Mysterious Retort'' (1906).
Plot
The film features a star with five female heads and a giant face that has people coming out of its mouth.
Production
The sets were hand painted.
Release and influence
The film was released by Méliès's
Star Film Company and is numbered 95 in its catalogues. The film is currently presumed
lost
Lost may refer to getting lost, or to:
Geography
*Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland
* Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US
History
*Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee ...
.
[
The 1900 ]Edison Manufacturing Company
The Edison Manufacturing Company, originally registered as the United Edison Manufacturing Company and often known as simply the Edison Company, was organized by inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison and incorporated in New York City in May 188 ...
short ''The Clown and the Alchemist'', directed by J. Stuart Blackton
James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 – August 13, 1941) was a British-American film producer and director of the silent era. One of the pioneers of motion pictures, he founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897. He was one of the first filmmakers to ...
and Albert E. Smith, may have been inspired by this film.
References
1897 films
1897 horror films
Films directed by Georges Méliès
Lost horror films
French black-and-white films
Lost French films
French silent short films
French horror films
1890s lost films
1897 short films
Silent horror films
1890s French films
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