How Bridget's Lover Escaped
| How Bridget's Lover Escaped | |
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| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
| Starring | Fernande Albany |
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Running time | 142 meters |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
How Bridget's Lover Escaped (French: Le Mariage de Victorine), also known as Le Mariage de Victoire,[1] is a 1907 French short silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès.
Plot
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Production
[edit]The cast includes Fernande Albany as the cook (Victorine in the French release of the film, Bridget in the American version), and the actor Manuel as her fiancé the fireman.[2] The scene outside the house was filmed outdoors, using Méliès's own house in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis.[2]
The film includes examples of substitution splicing,[2] as well as two experimental techniques relatively rare in Méliès's films: a three-scene cross-cutting sequence, and a medium shot used to give the audience a final glimpse of the cook and her fiancé.[3]
Release
[edit]The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 929–935 in its catalogues.[4] It was registered for American copyright at the Library of Congress on 26 April 1907. The film's release was first advertised in the press on 1 July 1907, in the Phono-Ciné-Gazette.[4]
An unedited print of the film on 16mm stock survives at the Library of Congress.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Hammond, Paul (1974), Marvellous Méliès, London: Gordon Fraser, p. 145, ISBN 0900406380
- ^ a b c 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. 271–73, ISBN 2903053073, OCLC 10506429
- ^ a b Abel, Richard (1998), The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896–1914, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 501, ISBN 9780520912915
- ^ a b Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 351, ISBN 9782732437323
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