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The Christmas Dream is a french film of genre Fantastic directed by Georges Méliès released in USA on 23 november 1901 with Georges Méliès
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Add to a movie listThe Christmas Dream (French: Rêve de Noël) is a 1900 French short silent Christmas film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 298–305 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a féerie cinématographique à grand spectacle en 20 tableaux.
The film, one of Méliès's cinematic contributions to the féerie genre, may have been inspired by a stage production produced in 1897 at the Olympia music hall in Paris. Méliès appears in the film twice, as a magician and as a beggar.
The Christmas Dream includes symbols derived from the Christian tradition, including a sheep and a lion, as well as a motif emblematic of Méliès himself: a jester. The sustained and (for Méliès) atypically serene scene of a church bell ringing also functions as a symbol, readable as a communal ritual of peace seen through a gently nostalgic lens. Special effects used in the film include stage machinery (for the church bell and the Christmas tree that opens up), substitution splices, and dissolves, which are used partially to help connect adjacent spaces, such as the inside of a church followed by the inside of its bell tower.
Synopsis
Le soir de Noël, des enfants s'endorment.Actors
Georges Méliès
(Beggar)
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