Buncoed Stage Johnnie

Buncoed Stage Johnnie (1908)

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This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give some flowers to a stage star but a prankster instead gives them to an obese cleaning woman.

Date of release
1908-05-23
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (5)
Runtime
2m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Georges Méliès

Casting

Interesting facts

Buncoed Stage Johnnie was a 1908 French silent comedy film produced by Georges Méliès. It was directed either by Méliès or by his assistant, an actor known as Manuel.

Production

Fernande Albany played the janitor in the film. The scene in front of the stage door was shot outdoors, on Méliès's property in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, in front of the remaining section of a house that had belonged to his father Louis Méliès.

Based on an analysis of the surviving fragments of the film, a publication on Méliès's films by the Centre national du cinéma suggested that Buncoed Stage Johnnie may possibly have been directed not by Méliès himself but by his production assistant, the actor Manuel.

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