fiction.wikisort.org - MovieCinderella or the Glass Slipper (French: Cendrillon ou la Pantoufle merveilleuse) is a 1913 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
1913 French film
Cinderella or the Glass Slipper |
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Directed by | Georges Méliès |
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Based on | "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault |
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Produced by | Charles Pathé |
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Edited by | Ferdinand Zecca |
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Production company | Star Film Company |
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Distributed by | Pathé Frères |
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Release date |
- 3 January 1913 (1913-01-03) (France)
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Country | France |
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Language | Silent |
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Production
Méliès had previously adapted Cinderella thirteen years earlier, in an 1899 film which had been his first big success.[1] The 1912 Cinderella can be considered a remake of the earlier film; both are derived directly from the original Perrault tale.[2]
The film was made in the summer and autumn of 1912.[3] Louise Lagrange, who would later appear in many French and Hollywood films, plays one of Cinderella's sisters. In a conversation with the writers of a Centre national du cinéma publication, Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film, she recalled Méliès's kindness and courtesy, as well as his meticulous diligence during the filming of special effects sequences.[2] Prince Charming is also played by an actress.[4] Méliès himself makes an appearance in the film as the Prince's messenger who searches for the owner of the glass slipper.[4] The film features extensive use of outdoor location filming, a practice common in Méliès's later films.[5] Special effects in the film were created using stage machinery, dissolves, and substitution splices.[2]
Like all of the other films Méliès made in 1911 and 1912, Cinderella was made under the supervision of Charles Pathé for his studio Pathé Frères.[4] After receiving Méliès's work, Pathé authorized the filmmaker Ferdinand Zecca to edit it. Zecca cut the film down to half the length Méliès intended, and is also probably responsible for adding the cross-cutting effects and medium shots seen in the film, as these devices are highly unusual in Méliès's style.[4]
In 1944, Méliès's widow Jehanne d'Alcy claimed to the Cinémathèque française that Zecca had "massacred" the film, cutting out the best scenes, including one in which pumpkins race each other across a garden.[2] D'Alcy asserted that the editing was deliberate sabotage, intended to ruin Méliès's career. This charge against Zecca was never proven,[4] though the abrupt linear edits do suggest that Zecca's work extended to a reedit of the entire film.[2]
Release and reception
According to December 1912 advertisements, the film scheduled for release on 3 January 1913.[6] It was advertised as a féerie en 2 parties et 30 tableaux, d'après le chef-d'œuvre de Charles Perrault.[7] It was not a success, partially because of the directorial conflict between Méliès, Zecca, and Pathé, and partially because Méliès's theatrical style had fallen out of fashion by 1912.[4]
References
- Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 106
- 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. 353–6, ISBN 2903053073, OCLC 10506429
- Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 31
- Frazer, John (1979), Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., pp. 218–221, ISBN 0816183686
- Hammond, Paul (1974), Marvellous Méliès, London: Gordon Fraser, ISBN 0900406380
- Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 29
- Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 287. Literal English translation: "féerie in two parts and thirty scenes, based on Charles Perrault's masterpiece."
Works cited
- Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, ISBN 9782732437323
External links
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Universe |
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Characters |
- Buttons
- Cinderella
- Ugly sisters
- Fairy godmother
- Wicked stepmother
- Prince Charming
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National variation |
- Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (Malay and Indonesian)
- Beauty and Pock Face (Chinese)
- Chūjō-hime (Japanese)
- Fair, Brown and Trembling (Irish)
- Finette Cendron (French)
- The Green Knight (Danish)
- Katie Woodencloak (Norwegian)
- Kongjwi and Patjwi (Korean)
- Ochikubo Monogatari (Japanese)
- "Rhodopis" (Greek)
- Rushen Coatie (Scottish)
- The Sharp Grey Sheep (Scottish)
- The Story of Tam and Cam (Vietnamese)
- Sumiyoshi Monogatari (Japanese)
- The True Bride (German)
- The Wonderful Birch (Russian)
- Ye Xian (Chinese)
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Male versions |
- Askeladden or Boots (Norwegian)
- Fire Boy (Japanese)
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Films | A Cinderella Story series | |
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Television | |
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Literary adaptations |
- Celestina (1791)
- Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper (1954)
- Nine Coaches Waiting (1958)
- Carrie (1974)
- The Coachman Rat (1989)
- Witches Abroad (1991)
- Ella Enchanted (1997)
- I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers (1999)
- Just Ella (1999)
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999)
- Chinese Cinderella (1999)
- The Fairy Godmother (2004)
- Phoenix and Ashes (2004)
- Bella at Midnight (2006)
- Ash (2009)
- Princess of Glass (2010)
- Cinder (2012)
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Opera |
- Cendrillon (1810 Isouard)
- La Cenerentola (1817 Rossini)
- Cendrillon (1899 Massenet)
- Cendrillon (1904 Viardot)
- La Cenicienta (1966 Hen)
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Ballet |
- Cinderella (1893 Fitinhof-Schell)
- Aschenbrödel (1900 Strauss-Bayer)
- Cinderella (1945 Prokofiev)
- Cinderella (1948 Ashton)
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Musicals |
- Cinderella and the Prince, or The Castle of Heart's Desire (1904)
- A Stubborn Cinderella (1909)
- Mr. Cinders (1929)
- Cinderella (1957)
- Cindy (1964)
- The Penny Friend (1966)
- The Slipper and the Rose (1984)
- Into the Woods (1987)
- Soho Cinders (2008)
- Cinderella (2013)
- Cinderella (2020)
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Other |
- Plays
- A Kiss for Cinderella (1916)
- Comics
- Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love
- Cinderalla
- Ella Cinders (1925–1961)
- Games
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Sociology |
- Cinderella complex
- Cinderella effect
- The Cinderella Movement
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Adult |
- Cinder Ellen up too Late
- Cinderella (1977)
- Naughty Cinderella
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- Actualities (1896–1900)
- Reconstructed actualities (1897–1902)
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Related |
- Georges Méliès in culture
- Le Grand Méliès (1952 documentary)
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007 book)
- Hugo (2011 film)
- Théâtre Robert-Houdin
- Jehanne d'Alcy (wife)
- Gaston Méliès (brother)
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