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The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess

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The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess
Directed byGeorges Méliès or Manuel
Produced byGeorges Méliès
Production
company
Release date
  • 1908 (1908)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess[1] (French: La Bonne Bergère et la Mauvaise Princesse) is a 1908 French short silent film credited to Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1429–1441 in its catalogues.[2]

A Centre national de la cinématographie guide to Méliès's films, analyzing the film's style, concludes that it was probably directed not by Méliès but by an employee of his, an actor-director known as Manuel. Special effects in the film are worked by stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution splices, and dissolves.[3] The film was shot partly in one of Méliès's glass studios in Montreuil-sous-Bois, and partly outdoors, in the garden of Méliès's family property next to the studios.[2]

Only an incomplete print of the film is known to exist; the rest is presumed lost.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Méliès, Georges (2008), Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (DVD; short film collection), Los Angeles: Flicker Alley, ISBN 978-1893967359
  2. ^ a b c Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 272, ISBN 9782732437323
  3. ^ Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France, Bois d'Arcy: Service des archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie, 1981, p. 335, ISBN 2903053073
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