Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1902)

Interesting facts

Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (English: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) is a 1902 French short silent film directed by Ferdinand Zecca, inspired by the eponymous folk tale added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from the Maronite storyteller Hanna Diyab. It is the first cinematographic adaptation of this tale.

Production

According to certain sources, the director was Albert Capellani, under supervision of Ferdinand Zecca. On the other hand, the website of the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé only indicates Ferdinand Zecca as director. The film was hand colored by Segundo de Chomón, using the mechanical stencil-based film tinting process for movies later patented as Pathécolor.

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