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catalogue), used four stagehands to create the eruption effect: one burning sulfur behind the model mountain, another pouring down smoke from a ladder off screen, a third on another ladder throwing down handfuls of sawdust to represent cinders, and a fourth agitating the miniature sea and raising the
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to recreate the eruption using a studio model. A dozen clips of Smith's real-life footage, and all three of Porter's films simulating different stages of the eruption, were sold by the Edison Company in July 1902; the catalogue encouraged exhibitors to combine the real and faked films to "make a
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popular in the 19th century, which offered simulated views of places and events that would otherwise be inaccessible to spectators. Méliès's table-top miniature models recreate the eruption in a "storybook illustration" style highly indebted to
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Mount Pelée looms over the town of Saint-Pierre. Fire and smoke rises from the crater; then lava begins pouring down the sides of the mountain. The village is soon engulfed in smoke and flames.
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was sometimes misidentified as Méliès's film, but it was in fact Zecca's version. Méliès's film was finally recovered in 2007, when a copy was found and restored by the
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Academic opinion is divided on the exact method Méliès used to create the eruption. The Méliès descendant and film scholar Jacques Malthête hypothesized that a type of
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Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France
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The Edison Company had sent the photographer J. Blair Smith to Martinique to film the aftermath of the accident; meanwhile, the filmmaker
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in its style, creating an effect markedly different from Méliès's deliberately Romanticized portrayal.
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was his third-to-last work in the genre. It was followed by two others also made in 1902:
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and is numbered 397 in its catalogues. Two other filmmakers contemporary with Méliès,
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The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelée and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique
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Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
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was used (as Méliès did four years later to create an eruption of
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Rosen, Miriam (1987), "Méliès, Georges", in Wakeman, John (ed.),
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Mt. Pelee in Eruption and Destruction of St. Pierre (Martinique)
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complete show in themselves." According to the film historian
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According to the film historian Pierre Lephrohon, the poet
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Mt. Pelee Smoking Before Eruption (St. Pierre, Martinique)
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Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès
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The film is one of the most frequently cited examples of
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Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants
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water level to suggest a tidal wave. The film historian
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A Wager Between Two Magicians, or Jealous of Myself
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Index


Georges Méliès
Star Film Company
Georges Méliès
Mount Pelée
Saint-Pierre, Martinique
Méliès's "reconstructed newsreels,"
The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax"
The Coronation of Edward VII
dioramas
Romanticism
flare
Feu de Bengale
Mount Vesuvius
The Merry Frolics of Satan
Blanc d'Espagne
Guillaume Apollinaire
Star Film Company
Ferdinand Zecca
Thomas Edison
Pathé Frères
Georges Sadoul
academic realism
Edison Manufacturing Company
Edwin S. Porter
Orange, New Jersey
Lewis Jacobs
lost
Cinémathèque Française
Filmoteca de Catalunya

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