George Méliès was a great French contributer to early Cinema. He was a professional magician, theatrical performer and a filmaker. Know a days he is known for being "The Father of Visual Effects" and the first fictional fantasist of the world. He discovered this method by accedent when he found out that he could use stop-motion photography to make things disappear and reappear by creating these effects. This incident proved to him that cinema had the capacity for manipulating and distorting time and space.
Méliès first saw a motion picture by the Lumiere Brothers and this led him to create his own movie camera after they regected his offer to buy theirs. He then created the first Movie studio in Europe made out of glass walls. In Méliès lifetime he made over 500 films all with fully played out scenes in which he produced, wrote, designed, and acted in nearly all of them. His most famous one being "Le voyage dans la lune"/ A trip to the moon (1902). -IN COLOR
Till this day, Méliès is one of the greatest pioneers of Cinema and his films continue to inspire a amuse viewers. I believe he did wonderous abilities to create and imagine the imposible as something possible.
Méliès first saw a motion picture by the Lumiere Brothers and this led him to create his own movie camera after they regected his offer to buy theirs. He then created the first Movie studio in Europe made out of glass walls. In Méliès lifetime he made over 500 films all with fully played out scenes in which he produced, wrote, designed, and acted in nearly all of them. His most famous one being "Le voyage dans la lune"/ A trip to the moon (1902). -IN COLOR
Till this day, Méliès is one of the greatest pioneers of Cinema and his films continue to inspire a amuse viewers. I believe he did wonderous abilities to create and imagine the imposible as something possible.
Quotes: | "The trick, intelligently applied, today allows us to make visible the supernatural, the imaginary, even the impossible. " |
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