An Hallucinated Alchemist
1897 French film
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An Hallucinated Alchemist (French: L'hallucination de l'alchimiste),[2] also known as The Alchemist's Hallucination,[1] is an 1897 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. This film is lost. The videos online are not this film, but actually of The Mysterious Retort (1906).
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- 1897
| L'hallucination de l'alchimiste | |
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| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
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Running time | 20 meters (approx. 1.1 minutes)[1] |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
Plot
The film features a star with five female heads and a giant face that has people coming out of its mouth.[citation needed]
Production
The sets were hand painted.[3]
Release and influence
The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 95 in its catalogues. The film is currently presumed lost.[2]
The 1900 Edison Manufacturing Company short The Clown and the Alchemist, directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith, may have been inspired by this film.[4]
