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The Imperceptible Transmutations

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The Imperceptible Transmutations
A scene from the film
Directed byGeorges Méliès
StarringGeorges Méliès
Production
company
Release date
  • 1904 (1904)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent
The Imperceptible Transmutations (1904)

Les Transmutations imperceptibles, sold in the United States as The Imperceptible Transmutations and in Britain as Imperceptible Transformation, is a 1904 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 556–557 in its catalogues.[1]

Méliès stars in the film as the magician, who is identified in the Star Film catalogues as a prince. The special effects were created with substitution splices and dissolves.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 347, ISBN 9782732437323
  2. ^ 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. 184–85, ISBN 2903053073
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