A Grandmother's Story (1908)

Original title

Conte de la grand-mère et rêve de l'enfant

Directed by

Georges Méliès

Genre

fantasy film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

5 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A child has a dream filled with toy characters and magical events. The film uses early cinematic tricks to create a fantasy world.

whimsicaldreamlikeplayfulnostalgicsurrealgentlefantasticalsilent

What happens

A Grandmother's Story (French: Conte de la grand-mère et Rêve de l'enfant), also known as Au pays des Jouets, is a 1908 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1314–1325 in its catalogues. The child in the film is played by Méliès's son, André Méliès, who was seven years old at the time. The film's special effects include stage machinery, substitution splices, multiple exposures, and dissolves. The complete film was about 243 meters (790 feet) long, of which fragments are known to survive; some scenes in the middle of the film are presumed lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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