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YouTube Video of the Day: Georges Méliès - An Up-To-Date Conjuror May 3, 2008

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aka L’Impressionniste fin de siècle, 1899

Georges Méliès (1861–1938)
was a French filmmaker
famous for leading many
technical and narrative
developments in the
earliest cinema.

He was born in Paris,
where his family
manufactured shoes.

He was very innovative
in the use of special effects.
He accidentally discovered the stop trick, or substitution, in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour in his films.

Because
of his ability
to seemingly
manipulate and
transform reality
with cinematography,

Méliès is sometimes
referred to as the
“Cinemagician.”

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