Incident from Don Quixote (1908)
- Original title
- La Toile d'araignée merveilleuse
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- fantasy film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 6 min
- 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 silent short film from 1908. Don Quixote dreams and fights monsters in his sleep. He encounters a winged woman whose wings become tentacles that attack him.
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What happens
La Toile d'araignée merveilleuse, released in the United States as Incident from Don Quixote and in Britain as Magic Armour, and also known as The Marvelous Cobweb and as Aventures de Don Quichotte, is a 1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote. The film depicts a dreaming Don Quixote who fights monsters in his sleep. He approaches a female winged humanoid, but the woman's wings turn into tentacles which attack the knight. The film features a typical depiction of a tentacle monster. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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La légende de la fileuse (1908)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.