Playing Cards (1896)

Original title

Une partie de cartes

Directed by

Georges Méliès

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 07m

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 65 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three people sit at a table playing cards. It is a brief silent scene of an everyday activity.

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What happens

Playing Cards (French: Une partie de cartes, literally "A Card Party") is an 1896 French black-and-white silent actuality film by Georges Méliès. It was the first film in Méliès' prolific career, and thus is number one in his Star Film catalogue. It is a remake of Louis Lumière's film The Messers. Lumière at Cards, which was released earlier the same year. Along with Georges Méliès himself, his brother Gaston Méliès and daughter Georgette Méliès also appear in the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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