Summoning the Spirits (1899)

Name: Summoning the Spirits
Genre: Fantasy
Released: 1899-05-20
Duration: 1 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Georges Méliès

Summoning the Spirits (1899), directed by Georges Méliès, starring Georges Méliès.

05/20/1899 BR Fantasy 1m

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A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Georges MélièsDirector

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Summoning the Spirits (French: Évocation spirite) is an 1899 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès.

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Summoning the Spirits (French: Évocation spirite) is an 1899 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès.

Plot

A magician hangs a wreath in the air and makes a grotesque face appear inside it. He then replaces it with a woman's face, and finally with a copy of his own face.

Release and survival

Méliès himself plays the magician in the film. Summoning the Spirits was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 205 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a scène à transformations.

Méliès burned all the surviving original camera negatives of his films toward the end of his life, and about three-fifths of his output is presumed lost. Summoning the Spirits was among the lost films until 2007, when a copy was identified and restored by the Filmoteca de Catalunya.

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Text from Summoning the Spirits on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summoning_the_Spirits

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It premiered on May 20, 1899, a Saturday.
Its original title is "Évocation spirite".
This film's quiz has 6 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.

Production

StudiosStar Film
CountriesFrance
LanguagesNo Language
StatusReleased

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Georges Méliès

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What is Summoning the Spirits about?

Summoning the Spirits: A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Who directed Summoning the Spirits?

Summoning the Spirits was directed by Georges Méliès in 1899.

Who stars in Summoning the Spirits?

The cast of Summoning the Spirits includes Georges Méliès.

How long is Summoning the Spirits?

Summoning the Spirits runs for 1 minutes, or 0h01.