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| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
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Running time | 67 seconds |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
Playing Cards (French:Une partie de cartes, literally "A Card Party") is an 1896Frenchblack-and-whitesilentactuality film byGeorges Méliès. It was the first film in Méliès' prolific career, and thus is number one in hisStar Film catalogue. It is aremake ofLouis Lumière's filmThe Messers. Lumière at Cards, which was released earlier the same year. Along with Georges Méliès himself, his brotherGaston Méliès and daughter Georgette Méliès also appear in the film.
It is afternoon in a French garden. Three men are sitting at a table, two of them playing cards while the third smokes and reads a newspaper. The man who is not playing cards calls over a young girl and has her fetch a woman with a bottle of beer. He proceeds to pour glasses for himself and his friends. After drinking the beer, the man reads a story out of the newspaper, and his friends laugh.
The film, long presumedlost,[1] was rediscovered after 1981 and included on a home video release in 2008.[2]
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