The Mermaid (1904) Georges Méliès

In this silent film a man catches fish in his hat and then pulls a rabbit out. A mermaid appears and changes into a lady and joins the man. This early silent film was released in France in 1904 under the title, "Georges Mélièsand was directed by Georges Méliès.

[queenuru]

Wow superb collection of these almost impossible to find films, thank you 😮❤😊

[MontagZoso]

113 years old, and 4 minutes long, and wow...that is a lot beauty, imagination and fantasy packed into a film less than 5 minutes long. Melies was just amazing. Thank you for posting. :)

[PlayItMeAgainSam]

Méliès is a legendary figure in cinema, with iconic status.

[kreplatch]

I ran a music identifier program for the song title. It's stock music - Album: Soothing Sounds Song: Midnight Dream

[mujawooja]

clever use of magic and effects. I've read a lot about this early magic
bernie

[jonasmania]

First Little Mermaid movie ever? I think so 🧜‍♀️

[daminami]

At first the fish were all like, "Fuck you, I'm not swimming!"

[jinjdivine]

Its so much fun to see the beginnings of this technology.

[YoutubeIsAwesome]

1:25

Comstock ahah :D

This is the cinema I like: show don't tell.


It is very close to what a dream is.

[juan_]

Le film m'a semblé très drôle. Ma partie préférée est alors le magicien commence à retirer des choses de son chapeau et semble également très intéressant comme avant sans instruments trop avancés, ils ont réussi à obtenir certains effets cette utilisation actuelle dans les applications qui sont à notre portée.

[coppelia]

@silentfilmhouse is this the original music of the film?

[tatyannafrancis]

You can tell they loved making things randomly disappear:)

[leqesai]

Damn that was some Chris Angel shit 3:05

[michaelh]

Greeting from Tokyo. I happened to come here via wikimedia commons.
I would like to know more about Georges Méliès.Salut.

[jeffs]

Ehhh....it was okay. The only reason I'd be willing to see that in the theaters because I have MoviePass.

[youngsteph]

Those cute rabbits would have gone into a tasty stew many years back.