Underplayed Gems

The Triple Headed Lady (1901)

The Triple Headed Lady poster
Original title
Bouquet d'illusions
Directed by
Georges Méliès
Genre
fantasy film, silent film
Country
France
Runtime
1 min
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A stage performer appears to have three heads through camera tricks. The film is a silent trick film from 1901 by Georges Méliès.

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What happens

The Triple-Headed Lady (French: Bouquet d'illusions) is a 1901 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès' Star Film Company and is numbered 334 in its catalogues. The film was presumed lost until 2014, when Michael Zahs, a historian in rural Iowa, USA, approached film historian Serge Bromberg, who identified a single deteriorated print in a collection that had belonged to Frank Brinton, a Midwestern American traveling showman of Méliès' era. The Brinton collection was also found to contain another Méliès film presumed lost, The Wonderful Rose-Tree. The Triple-Headed Lady was restored in 2016 by the film restoration studio Lobster Films, and screened that year, for the first time since its rediscovery, at the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna. The rediscovery and preservation of the film is celebrated in the 2018 documentary feature film Saving Brinton. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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