Thanking the Audience (1900)

Directed by

Georges Méliès

Genre

silent film

Country

France

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a very short silent film made to be shown at the end of a movie program. It shows seven characters from different countries changing into each other, each saying thank you in their own language.

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What happens

Thanking the Audience (French: Vue de remerciements au Public) is a 1900 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 292 in its catalogues. The film was designed to be projected at the end of a showing of short films. It depicted seven international figures—"a Frenchman, English soldier, German, Spaniard, Italian lady, Russian, and Turkish lady"—transforming into each other, each displaying the words "Thanks, hope to see you again" in a different language. Thanking the Audience is currently presumed lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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