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Gulliver's Travels Among The Lilliputians And The Giants
''Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants'', released in the United States as ''Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants'' and in the United Kingdom as ''Gulliver's Travels—In the land of the Lilliputians and the Giants'', is a 1902 French short film, short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel ''Gulliver's Travels''. Production Méliès himself plays Gulliver in the film. The visual differences of scale between Gulliver and the countries he visits were created using multiple exposures and miniature models; Méliès uses substitution splices and careful exposure design to merge the various elements and give them a sense of apparently seamless action. Some scenes were filmed outdoors, in Méliès's garden in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, so that the camera could be far away enough from the Lilliputians to make them look small. Release and legacy ''Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants'' was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards. His films include ''A Trip to the Moon'' (1902) and '' The Impossible Voyage'' (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. The 2011 film '' Hugo'' was inspired by the life and work of Méliès. Early life and education Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was born 8 December 1861 in Paris, son of Jean-Louis Méliès and his Dutch wife, Johannah-Catherine Schuering. His father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
