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Imagine that all your life you have watched only TV news, and then one day, all of a sudden, you were shown “The Lord of the Rings”. That is pretty much how viewers of the late 19th century must have felt when they first saw the films of Georges Méliès.
In the new edition/episode/issue of HOW IT WAS, we will tell you about the man who can be called the father of modern cinematography. About the man who was the first to use special effects and tricks in cinema, made the first horror film and the first science fiction film in the history of cinematography, the man who was the first to produce colour films and who was the first to open a real film studio. You will find out why the son of a wealthy manufacturer traded in a successful family business for an illusory career, why the Lumiere brothers refused to sell their cinema camera to Méliès, how Méliès surprised King Edward 7 and why the main man in world cinema at the end of his life had to sell toys at the railway station.
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Featuring footage from the film:
«Le Grand Méliès», dir. Georges Franju, 1952
Photographs used:
AFP, Victorgrigas / CC BY-SA 4.0