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money hidden, the bandits burn his feet with embers from the fireplace, but the farmer remains silent. When the bandits threaten to do the same to the farmer's young daughter, the farmer's wife gives in and reveals the money's hiding place. The bandits gather the money; just as they are attempting to flee, the farmer's wife tears off the bandit chief's mask, revealing his face. In retaliation for the unmasking, the bandit chief sets the house on fire, and the bandits escape in the confusion.
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policemen in pursuit. The bandits flee through the quarry into the mountains. The chief is finally ambushed by hiding policemen, captured, and put on trial. The farmer's wife, the only survivor of the fire in the farmhouse, identifies the bandit, and he is sentenced to death. The bandit chief, after a night tormented by dreams of his crimes, is led to the
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As night falls on a farmyard in the French countryside, four masked bandits climb over the gate and break into the farmhouse. They bind and gag the farmer and his wife, and stab a male and female servant who attempt to help their masters. In an attempt to get the farmer to divulge where he has his
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The bandits return to their hideout in an abandoned quarry, warning the rest of their gang that policemen are on their track. The police soon break into the hideout, and a large fight ensues. The bandit chief escapes with the few gang members who have survived of the fight, with the surviving
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and sold at a higher price. The two final scenes, showing the execution, were specified as optional in France, for fear their realism would frighten the audience. Unusually for Méliès, special publicity artwork was commissioned to advertise the film at American showings: three
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The actor Manuel, who directed some films for the Méliès studio in 1908, plays the main role of the bandit who is arrested and executed. Georges Méliès probably plays the executioner's assistant. In a highly unusual move for Méliès, many of the scenes were
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by the Donaldson Lithographing Company, and a half-sheet poster by Hennegan and Company. (The founders of these companies, William Donaldson and James Hennegan, are now better known as the founding editors of
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Méliès's greatest financial successes had occurred in 1903 and 1904; by 1906, his fortunes had begun to decline as competition with other firms, such as
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Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France
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in Montreuil. Despite the film's unusual subject for Méliès, it features several of the
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According to the 1944 recollections of Georges Méliès's nephew Paul, the scenario for
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The Business of Culture: Strategic Perspectives on Entertainment and Media
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and is numbered 824–837 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a
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techniques he had famously used in his fantasy films, including
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Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants
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A fragment of the film survives; the rest is presumed
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A Wager Between Two Magicians, or Jealous of Myself
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Georges Méliès
Gaston Méliès
Star Film Company
French
silent film
Georges Méliès
guillotine
Pathé Frères
Gaumont
melodramas
The Christmas Angel
The Chimney Sweep
Gaston Méliès
Histoire d'un crime
Ferdinand Zecca
realism
shot outdoors on location
Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis
actuality films he made between 1896 and 1900
quarry
special effects
substitution splices
multiple exposures
dissolves
pyrotechnic
Star Film Company
hand-colored
lithographs
Billboard

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