| Summoning the Spirits | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
| Starring | Georges Méliès |
| Production company | Star Film Company |
| Release date |
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| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
Summoning the Spirits (French: Évocation spirite) is an 1899 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès.
Plot
A magician hangs a wreath in the air and makes a grotesque face appear inside it. He then replaces it with a woman's face, and finally with a copy of his own face.
Release and survival
Méliès himself plays the magician in the film. Summoning the Spirits was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 205 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a scène à transformations.
Méliès burned all the surviving original camera negatives of his films toward the end of his life, and about three-fifths of his output is presumed lost. Summoning the Spirits was among the lost films until 2007, when a copy was identified and restored by the Filmoteca de Catalunya.
References
- ^ "La Filmoteca de Catalunya rescata quatre pel·lícules de Méliès que es donaven per perdudes", Vilaweb (in Catalan), 27 September 2007, retrieved 5 December 2014
- ^ Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 96, ISBN 9782732437323
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