Good Glue Sticks (1907)
- Original title
- La colle universelle
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- comedy film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 5 min
- Rating
- 4.9 of 10 from 26 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
A street peddler sells a special glue that can stick anything together. The peddler demonstrates the glue's power with a series of tricks using substitution splices.
playfulwhimsicallightheartedfast-pacedslapstickinventivefunnysilent-era
What happens
Good Glue Sticks (French: La Colle universelle, literally "The Universal Glue") is a 1907 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1005–1009 in its catalogues. Méliès plays the street peddler in the film, which uses substitution splices for its special effects. The earliest academic discussion of the film, in John Frazer's 1979 book Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès, was based on a badly edited print, with the end of the film placed at the beginning. A 1981 guide to Méliès's films, published by the Centre national de la cinématographie, clarified the scene order. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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