| The Wonderful Living Fan | |
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| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
| Starring | Georges Méliès |
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| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
The Wonderful Living Fan (French:Le Merveilleux Éventail vivant) is a 1904 Frenchsilenttrick film byGeorges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès'sStar Film Company and is numbered 581–584 in its catalogues.[1]
The concept for the living fan is derived from a scene inThe Sun Prince, a stage spectacle produced in 1899 at theThéâtre du Châtelet in Paris.[2] Méliès plays the fan maker in the film, which works its tricks usingstage machinery,substitution splices, anddissolves.[3] The film's costuming and decor sets the trick in the era ofLouis XV.[2]
Prints of the film survive in several archives, including ahand-colored print at theCinémathèque Française.[2] A black-and-white print restored by the film preservationistDavid Shepard was released on home video in 2008.[4]
In a book on Méliès, film historian John Frazer citedThe Wonderful Living Fan as "characteristic of Méliès's best fantasy," comparing the arrangement of women on the fan to "a tableau in aFlorenz Ziegfeld musical."[2]
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