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Between Calais and Dover is a french film of genre Comedy directed by Georges Méliès with Georges Méliès
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Add to a movie listBetween Dover and Calais (French: Entre Calais et Douvres), also known as Between Calais and Dover, is an 1897 short silent film directed by Georges Méliès.
It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 112 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a scène comique à bord d'un paquebot.
The film was filmed outside in the garden of Méliès's property in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, with painted scenery. The rolling motion of the ship was created by a special articulated platform, built by Méliès for Sea Fighting in Greece the same year. The set of the film includes a trademark with the initials "M.R.," referring to Méliès and Lucien Reulos, a colleague who was then Méliès's business partner.
The film features Méliès himself as the man in the checked suit; Georgette Méliès, his daughter, as the little girl with the doll; and Joseph Grapinet, a sculptor from Montreuil, as the man with binoculars.
Synopsis
Le court-métrage présente le pont d'un bateau qui tangue, comme l'indique le titre, entre les villes de Calais et de Douvres (donc sur la Manche). Les passagers souffrent du mal de mer (balancement filmé en studio), et l'un deux, ne pouvant se tenir à table, tombe sur le pont.Actors
Georges Méliès
(The Man in the Checked Suit)
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