A Mysterious Portrait (1899)
- Original title
- Le Portrait mystérieux
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- fantasy film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1 min
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 39 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A magician uses a disappearing act on a portrait. The portrait transforms in surprising visual ways.
playfulwhimsicalsurrealbriefold-fashionedcuriousvisual trickery
What happens
A Mysterious Portrait (French: Le Portrait mystérieux), also known as The Mysterious Portrait, is an 1899 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 196 in its catalogs, where it is advertised as a grande nouveauté photographique extraordinaire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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