An Up-to-Date Conjurer

An Up-to-Date Conjurer (1899)

L'Illusionniste fin-de-siècle

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

Date of release
1899-01-01
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (55)
Runtime
1m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Georges Méliès

Casting

Interesting facts

L'Illusionniste fin de siècle is an 1899 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released in the United States as An Up-to-Date Conjurer, in Britain as An Up-to-Date Conjuror. It is also known as L'Impressionniste fin de siècle, The Conjurer and in Spanish Muñeca transformista.

Production

Méliès plays the conjuror. The special effects in the film were created using sophisticated substitution splices, with the shots carefully cut and matched together to allow the mid-motion transformations to seem smooth.

Méliès made two versions of An Up-to-Date Conjuror, with a different dancer and different scenery, as well as slight variations in the action. It is possible that other Méliès films could have likewise been filmed more than once. The scenery in the more commonly available version of the film was reused for Méliès's later film Fat and Lean Wrestling Match.

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