The Indian Sorcerer
| The Indian Sorcerer | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
| Starring | Georges Méliès |
Production company | |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
The Indian Sorcerer (French: Le Fakir de Singapour) is a 1908 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1253–1257 in its catalogues.[1]
Plot[edit]
In an open space in front of houses built in Moorish style, overlooking palm trees and a body of water, a woman is dusting a painting of a sorcerer in a turban and long robes. Suddenly the sorcerer himself bursts through the painting and indulges in a variety of magic tricks, with the woman looking on and sometimes taking part. First the sorcerer makes an egg appear from her ear; then he makes it grow to enormous size, cuts it neatly in half, and combines the two half-shells with a palm tree and a pair of spectacles to make a giant weighing scale. Putting ingredients into the two half-shells and putting them back together, he cooks the egg over a fire and makes a flock of hens, and then two tiny children, appear from it. For a finale, he makes the woman herself burst from the egg. She takes a bow and exits, and the sorcerer puts one half-shell on his back and crawls happily away.
Production[edit]
Méliès himself plays the title role in the film, which uses pyrotechnics and substitution splices to create its special effects.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 354, ISBN 9782732437323
- ^ Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France, Bois d'Arcy: Service des archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie, 1981, pp. 317–18, ISBN 2903053073
External links[edit]
 | This article related to a French film of the 1900s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |