Tags:1800s,adaptation,Cinderella,dissolves,fairy,fairy tale,féerie,Film,Film History,Méliès,melies,Perrault,silent film,transitions Film History Essentials: New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, No. 1 (1899) • May 24, 2023 •1 Comment ...
What’s most interesting and unique about this version of Cinderella is its focus on clocks as a recurring visual motif. This Cinderella is, as film historian J.B. Kaufman puts it, “haunted by the tyranny of time.” It’s difficult to know now whether this was a Méliès innovation, or...
Tags: 1800s, adaptation, Cinderella, dissolves, fairy, fairy tale, féerie, Film, Film History, Méliès, melies, Perrault, silent film, transitions Film History Essentials: New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, No. 1 (1899) • May 24, 2023 • 1 Comment Posted in Film ...