Méliès
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noun
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Very early films by Georges Méliès, the Lumière brothers and Alice Guy Blaché featured Fuller’s serpentine dance.
From New York Times
Think “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” with a sprinkle of Georges Méliès.
From Los Angeles Times
Not long after his death, a shoemaker’s son named Georges Méliès purchased the Theatre Robert-Houdin and upon seeing a demonstration of the newly invented cinematograph by the Lumière brothers, acquired his own projector.
From New York Times
Like Méliès, Tamariz accomplishes this by turning off, so to speak, the camera.
From New York Times
Turning Georges Méliès’ famous 1902 science fiction short, “A Trip to the Moon,” into an equally fanciful vision of dreams dashed, a filmed journey set aboard a coffeepot-spaceship runs in reverse.
From Los Angeles Times
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