Wednesday 29 May 2024

How to blow your top in style

 

The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique (1902)


Directed by Georges Melies this is an early short film. A volcano blows its top.


A full special effects extravaganza in this 1900s disaster movie. Now sure things here might not live up to later efforts but it still pretty impressive what Melies has achieved here. Unfortunately the image quality on surviving print does not seem to be the best.


3/5

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