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
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.
dreamlikewhimsicalsurrealplayfulfantasticallightheartedshort
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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