The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess (1908)
- Original title
- La Bonne Bergère et la mauvaise princesse
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- fantasy film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 13 min
- Rating
- 5.3 of 10 from 11 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 good shepherdess contends with an evil princess in a fantasy tale. The film uses stage tricks and early special effects to tell the story.
fantasticaltheatricalplayfulmelodramaticnostalgicwhimsicalstagedenchanting
What happens
The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess (French: La Bonne Bergère et la Mauvaise Princesse) is a 1908 French short silent film credited to Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1429–1441 in its catalogues. A Centre national de la cinématographie guide to Méliès's films, analyzing the film's style, concludes that it was probably directed not by Méliès but by an employee of his, an actor-director known as Manuel. Special effects in the film are worked by stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution splices, and dissolves. The film was shot partly in one of Méliès's glass studios in Montreuil-sous-Bois, and partly outdoors, in the garden of Méliès's family property next to the studios. Only an incomplete print of the film is known to exist; the rest is presumed lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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