The Alchemist's Hallucination (1897)
- Original title
- L'hallucination de l'alchimiste
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- fantasy film, horror film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1 min
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 26 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
An alchemist in his laboratory has a strange vision. The film shows early special effects tricks from silent cinema.
dreamlikeuncannywhimsicaleerieold-fashionedplayfulmysteriousslow
What happens
An Hallucinated Alchemist (French: L'hallucination de l'alchimiste), also known as The Alchemist's Hallucination, is an 1897 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. This film is lost. The videos online are not this film, but actually of The Mysterious Retort (1906). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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