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Movie poster: Summoning the Spirits (1899)
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Summoning the Spirits

1899 · 1 min Fantasy
5.2 / 10 · TMDB

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

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Original Title Évocation spirite
Year 1899
Country France
Genre Fantasy
Director Georges Méliès
Runtime 1 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.2/10 (27 votes)

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Méliès constructs this brief trick on the contrast between proving an object's ordinary nature and its subsequent magical transformation. The film relies on stop-substitution and double exposure as foundational, yet for 1899, revolutionary tools of cinematic wonder.

What lingers after the apparition vanishes is a sense of witnessing the very moment when film divorced itself from documenting reality to create its own. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Georges Méliès

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