The Witch's Revenge

Le Sorcier, sold in the United States as The Witch's Revenge and in Britain as The Sorcerer's Revenge, is a 1903 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 473–475 in its catalogues.[1]

The Witch's Revenge
Directed byGeorges Méliès
Production
company
Release date
  • 1903 (1903)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

Plot

In a courtly setting, a king condemns an old sorcerer to be chained to a post and tortured. The sorcerer, begging for mercy, attempts to entertain the court with magic, conjuring up a classical tableau vivant and making a chair spin of its own accord. However, the king is steadfast. Just as he is about to chain up the sorcerer, however, his attendants transform into assistants of the sorcerer, and chain the king up instead. The sorcerer and the whole court link arms, and they all dance away happily.

Production

Méliès plays the sorcerer, whose magic is created using a combination of stage machinery, trap doors, substitution splices, multiple exposures, and dissolves.[2]

References
  1. Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 345, ISBN 9782732437323
  2. Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France, Bois d'Arcy: Service des archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie, 1981, pp. 131–32, ISBN 2903053073


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