Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (1902)
- Directed by
- Ferdinand Zecca
- Genre
- silent film, adventure film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 23 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a very early silent film adaptation of the classic folk tale. It tells the story of Ali Baba who discovers a cave full of treasure belonging to a band of forty thieves.
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What happens
Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (English: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) is a 1902 French short silent film directed by Ferdinand Zecca, inspired by the eponymous folk tale added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from the Maronite storyteller Hanna Diyab. It is the first cinematographic adaptation of this tale. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.