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Post by Silent Scream Queen on Mar 4, 2022 7:08:04 GMT -5
Directed by film pioneer Georges Méliès who plays the demon himself.
Wiki has some interesting information on it:
"Méliès's pre-1903 films, especially the popular A Trip to the Moon,[4] were frequently pirated by American producers such as Siegmund Lubin. In order to combat the piracy, Méliès opened an American branch of his Star Film Company and began producing two negatives of each film he made: one for domestic markets, and one for foreign release.[5] To produce the two separate negatives, Méliès built a special camera that used two lenses and two reels of film simultaneously.[4]
In the 2000s, researchers at the French film company Lobster Films noticed that Méliès's two-lens system was in effect an unintentional, but fully functional, stereo film camera, and therefore that 3D versions of Méliès films could be made simply by combining the domestic and foreign prints of the film.[5] Serge Bromberg, the founder of Lobster Films, presented 3D versions of The Infernal Cauldron and another 1903 Méliès film, The Oracle of Delphi, at a January 2010 presentation at the Cinémathèque Française. According to the film critic Kristin Thompson, "the effect of 3D was delightful … the films as synchronized by Lobster looked exactly as if Méliès had designed them for 3D."[5] Bromberg screened both films again—as well as the 1906 Méliès film The Mysterious Retort, similarly prepared for 3D—at a September 2011 presentation at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."
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Post by classichorrorfan on Mar 7, 2022 7:27:36 GMT -5
Wow! That one looks amazing for being from as far back as 1903! The ghosts look very cool and unique! This is another rare gem from way back when that is worth seeing!
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Post by Silent Scream Queen on Mar 7, 2022 10:04:56 GMT -5
I'd like to see the 3D version.
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