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The Vanishing Lady(Movie, 1896)

Original title: "Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin" (French/FR)
1min | Genre: Mystery
The Vanishing LadyRating: 3.1/5 (with 4949 votes)
The Vanishing Lady (French: Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin, literally "Magical Disappearance of a Lady at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin") is an 1896 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. It features Méliès and Jehanne d'Alcy performing a trick in the manner of a stage illusion, in which D'Alcy disappears into thin air. A skeleton appears in her place before she finally returns for a curtain call. The film, shot outdoors in Méliès's garden on a platform decorated with theatrical scenery, is based on a famous stage illusion by Buatier de Kolta, in which a woman disappeared by escaping through a hidden trapdoor. However, using an editing technique known as the substitution splice, Méliès carried out the trick using cinematic special effects rather than conventional stage machinery. The substitution splice also allowed Méliès to add new material to the end of the trick, inventing the appearance and transformation of the skeleton prop and D'Alcy's return. The film, notable as Méliès's first known use of cinematic special effects, survives in film archives; a hand-color... ()
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About The Vanishing Lady

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

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Additional Information

Production country: France
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: No Language (XX)
Translated into 6 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Japanese (JA), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/01/1896
Screenwriter: Georges Méliès
Film Editor: Georges Méliès
Production Designer: Georges Méliès
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Escamotage d'une dame au théâtre Robert Houdin"
"Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin"
"Escamoteo de una dama"
"ロベール・ウーダン劇場における婦人の雲隠れ"
"ロベール=ウーダンげきじょうにおけるふじんのくもがくれ"
"The Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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