Miss de Vère (English Jig)
| Miss de Vère | |
|---|---|
 Elise de Vère | |
| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
| Starring | Elise de Vère |
| Distributed by | Star Film Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 20 meters/65 feet[1] |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
Miss de Vère (English Jig) (French: Miss de Vère) was an 1896 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 45 in its catalogues.[1] The performer, the "Miss de Vère" of the title, is the dancer and actress Constance Elise de Vere.[2] She was, along with Clementine de Vere, a daughter of Charles de Vere (real name H. S. G. Williams), an Englishman who had worked as a professional magician and who was then the owner of a Paris shop selling conjuror's supplies, electrical equipment, and films.[3] Constance Elise de Vere,[4] known professionally as Elise de Vere, married Frank Joseph Godsol in Newark, NJ on December 8, 1917.[5]
Miss de Vère in a complete form is currently presumed lost, but a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around 1896–97, rediscovered in the mid-2010s in a private collection, appears to preserve a fragment of the film.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hammond, Paul (1974). Marvellous Méliès. London: Gordon Fraser. p. 135. ISBN 0900406380.
- ^ San Francisco Silent Film Festival (2020), "Flipbook 2 - La danse", Vimeo, retrieved 25 April 2020
- ^ Barnes, John (1992). Filming the Boer War. London: Bishopgate Press. p. 69. ISBN 1852190469.
- ^ Greene III, Charles (2022). Ionia - Magician Princess Secrets Unlocked (First ed.). Corporate Shuffle. ISBN 978-0-578-35372-2.
- ^ Greene III, Charles (2022). Ionia - Magician Princess Secrets Unlocked. Corporate Shuffle. ISBN 978-0-578-35372-2.
- ^ Lecointe, Thierry; Byrne, Robert (2019), "Léon Beaulieu's Pocket Cinematograph", silentfilm.org, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, retrieved 25 April 2020
External links
[edit]- Miss de Vère at IMDb
- Flipbook on Vimeo, tentatively identified as a fragment on Miss de Vère
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