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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2009 |
Early Cinema -- The Corrick Collection (1901-1914), 3 -- Prog. 1 |
| Film Title |
LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT |
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| Country |
France |
| Release Date |
1902 |
| Production Co. |
Pathé |
| Director |
Lucien Nonguet, Ferdinand Zecca |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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16 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 761 ft. |
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12'41" |
| Archive Source |
National Film and Sound Archive, Australia (Corrick Collection #111). |
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| Print Notes |
col. (pochoir e imbibizione/stencil-colour and tinting)
Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles.
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| Other Credits |
| scg./des: V. Lorant Heilbronn |
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| Program Notes |
Pathé released their first version of Charles Perrault’s classic 1697 “Sleeping Beauty” story in 1902, telling the tale of a beautiful princess, a sharp spindle, and a 100-year-long curse. Similar to other early Pathé dramas such as Marie-Antoinette (1904), Le Règne de Louis XIV (1904), and Don Quixote (1903), the narrative is organized as a series of tableaux, relying on the viewer’s familiarity with the story to hold the onscreen narrative together. Each of the 11 tableaux is a single shot, filmed from a distance on a theatrical stage-type set with painted backdrops. The last scene, “Fairy Land End”, is vibrantly colored and stenciled in great detail.
LESLIE ANNE LEWIS
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