Barque sortant du port de Trouville

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Movie
Original title Barque sortant du port de Trouville
Country of production France
Publishing year 1896
Rod
Director Georges Méliès
production Théâtre Robert-Houdin

Barque sortant du port de Trouville ( German : Boot, leaving the port of Trouville ) is a French short film by Georges Méliès from 1896 . The film is considered lost . Nothing is known about the plot or the recording technique.

The 20 m long film belongs to the director's group of travel films. The imagery of arrival and departure is reflected in the film. Train stations, rivers, and harbors were very attractive to him and other contemporary artists such as Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet .

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Individual evidence

  1. Jacques Malthête, Laurent Mannoni (ed.): Méliès. Magic et cinéma. Paris-Musées, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-87900-598-1 , p. 243 , (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, April 26 to September 1, 2002).
  2. ^ Michaela Fries: Bon Voyage, Monsieur Méliès! The interrelationship of the arts in the Belle Époque, examined on the basis of the furnishings by Georges Méliès “Le voyage dans la lune”. Diploma thesis at the Philological and Cultural Studies Faculty of the University of Vienna, 2008, p. 108, ( online version ).