The Venetian Looking-glass (1905)
- Original title
- Le Miroir de Venise
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- comedy film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A silent comedy from 1905. It is a short film about a character inspired by Shylock from Shakespeare's play who gets into a misadventure. The film is presumed lost.
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What happens
The Venetian Looking-Glass (French: Le Miroir de Venise) is a 1905 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. The main character, consistently spelled "Schylock" in Méliès's materials, was inspired by Shylock from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare-on-film scholar Judith Buchanan concludes that the film was "probably only mildly Shakespearean." The film was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 699–701 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as une mésaventure de Schylock ("a misadventure of Shylock"). It is currently presumed lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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