Tuesday 27 August 2024

A partial web

 

The Spider and the Butterfly (1909)


Directed by Georges Melies this is an early short film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, then a spider woman.


Unfortunately this is only a surviving fragment of a longer film and it shows, the opening in particular is a bit disconnected. While I enjoy the colour tinting and set dressing by 1909 the film is lacking a bit in plot. A glimpse of what was even if not the full thing.


3/5

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