Underplayed Gems

Place de l'Opéra, First View (1896)

Place de l'Opéra, First View poster
Genre
short film, documentary film
Country
France
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

This is a very short silent film from 1896 that shows a busy square in Paris. It was one of the first movies made by Georges Melies. The film is now lost.

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What happens

Place de l'Opéra (1er aspect) (em português: Praça da Ópera (1ª vista)) é um curta-metragem francês de filme mudo e documentário de 1896, dirigido e produzido por Georges Méliès. Distribuído pela Star Film, o filme é registrado com o número 10 em seu catálogo. É o primeiro de três actuality films que Méliès dedicou à Place de l'Opéra ao longo de 1896, locação de significado especial em sua trajetória: foi durante as filmagens naquela praça que a câmera emperrou acidentalmente, levando à descoberta do stop trick — a técnica de substituição que transformaria Méliès no pioneiro dos efeitos especiais cinematográficos. O filme é considerado presumidamente desaparecido. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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