Flower Fairy (1905)
A little flower film by Gaston Velle.
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hyped garbage
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
This trick film about transformations -- a woman in fancy dress opens a window and gradually transforms the frame into a mass of blooming flowers -- was directed by Gaston Velle. However, the modern viewer might be more interested in the fact that it was photographed by Segundo de Chomon, who would become the go-to guy for this sort of film. This sort of cinematic magic trick was popular at the time and its leading exponent was Georges Melies. De Chomon would drive him out of business with the better financial resources of his employer.It's not as good as Melies, but it is clearly different. The woman in this one bows in an old-fashioned, charming manner to the audience. Melies was all about the vivacity of his performance. This film also benefits, at least in the version I saw, in being a well-preserved and elaborately colored copy. It was almost certainly done by a stencil process.