Divers At Work on the Wreck of The Maine (1898)

Original title

Visite sous-marine du Maine

Directed by

Georges Méliès

Genre

silent film, adventure film

Country

France

Runtime

1 min

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 143 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French short silent film from 1898. It shows divers working on the wreck of the battleship Maine.

silentshorthistoricalunderwaterearly cinemadocumentary-style

What happens

Visite sous-marine du Maine, released in the United States as Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine" and in Britain as Divers at Work on a Wreck Under Sea or Divers at Work on a Wreck Under Water, is an 1898 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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