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The Venetian Looking-Glass (French: Le Miroir de Venise) was a 1905 French short silent film by Georges Méliès.[1]

The Venetian Looking-Glass
Directed by	Georges Méliès
Based on	The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Production company	Star Film Company
Release date	1905 (1905)
Country	France
Language	Silent

The main character, consistently spelled "Schylock" in Méliès's materials, was inspired by Shylock from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.[2] Shakespeare-on-film scholar Judith Buchanan concludes that the film was "probably only mildly Shakespearean."[3]

The film was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 699–701 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as une mésaventure de Schylock ("a misadventure of Shylock").[2] It is currently presumed lost.[1]

References

External links

• The Venetian Looking-Glass at IMDb

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