fiction.wikisort.org - MovieSorcellerie culinaire (scène clownesque), released in the US as The Cook in Trouble and in the UK as Cookery Bewitched, is a 1904 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 585–588 in its catalogues.[1]
1904 film
The Cook in Trouble |
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Directed by | Georges Méliès |
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Starring | Georges Méliès |
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Production company | Star Film Company |
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Release date | 1904 |
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Country | French |
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Language | Silent |
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Production
Méliès plays the cook in the film. Special effects used include pyrotechnics and substitution splices.[1]
The action of the film is a variation on the "trapdoor chase", a type of spectacular chase sequence particularly associated with the Lupino family of performers, including Lupino Lane. In Méliès's version, the trapdoors are designed as openings within the kitchen set: a window, an oven door, a pot, a drawer, and so on.[2] Describing the film for British exhibitors, Charles Urban's film catalogue called the result "acrobatic".[1]
Reception and survival
With its fast-paced antics, designed to build up a hectic visual rhythm rather than to advance a narrative, The Cook in Trouble has been seen as a particularly modernist Méliès film, presaging Dadaism and Surrealism[3] as well as Mack Sennett's chase films.[1]
According to the summary in Méliès's American catalogue, The Cook in Trouble originally ended with the cook's clothes being retrieved from the cooking pot; this ending is missing from the surviving copy of the film.[1]
References
- 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. 197–198, ISBN 2-903053-07-3, OCLC 10506429
- Balducci, Anthony (2012), The Funny Parts: A History of Film Comedy Routines and Gags, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 145–46
- Strauven, Wanda (1997), "L'art de Georges Méliès et le futurisme italien", in Malthête, Jacques; Marie, Michel (eds.), Georges Méliès, l'illusionniste fin de siècle?: actes du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 13–22 août 1996, Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle, p. 343
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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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