Discovering lost films of George Méliès in fin-de-siècle flip books (1896-1901) = Fragments de films Méliès disparus ressuscités par des flip books (1896-1901) / Thierry Lecointe, Pascal Fouche, Robert Byrne, Pamela Hutchinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lecointe, Thierry, author.

Contributor:

Fouché, Pascal.

Byrne, Robert (Film conservator)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--France--History.

Motion pictures.

Cinematographers--France--History.

Cinematographers.

Silent films.

Flip books.

Méliès, Georges, 1861-1938--Criticism and interpretation.

Méliès, Georges.

Beaulieu, Léon (1857-1901).

Beaulieu, Léon.

Physical Description:

viii, 272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

Distribution:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press

Place of Publication:

New Barnet, Herts, United Kingdom : John Libbey Publishing Ltd., [2020].

Language Note:

In English and French.

Summary:

No living person has seen the earliest films of pioneering cinema magician, Georges Mé́liès. All that remain are his catalogs and a few archival images. The 2013 discovery of a flip book manufactured by an obscure Parisian bimbelotier, Léon Beaulieu, promised a glimpse of an unseen Méliè̀s film. This idea inspired years of investigation by researcher Thierry Lecointe -- a trail that led him to collector and historian Pascal Fouché and his amazing collection of more than 10,000 flip books, including 27 produced by the mysterious Beaulieu. The conclusions of Lecointe's ground-breaking research are astonishing. Léon Beaulieu's primitive flip books were comprised of images appropriated from early films, many of them lost treasures. Early films by Méliès, but also Gaumont, Skladanowsky and Pathé suddenly came to life after more than a century! This meticulously researched volume reveals how these miraculous discoveries were made and features more than 500 previously unpublished images that you won't have seen anywhere else.-- (Indiana University Press).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, page 55-56, 271.

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Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

086196750X

9780861967506

OCLC:

1198018727

Publisher Number:

99991105978