Combat naval en Grèce
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Combat naval en Grèce |
| Country of production | France |
| Publishing year | 1897 |
| length | 1 minute |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georges Méliès |
| production | Star movie |
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Combat naval en Grèce ( German : Seegefecht in Greece ) is a French short film by Georges Méliès from 1897, which takes place in the Turkish-Greek War . As far as is known, it is the first war film in film history . The film was not shown in Germany .
action
The film plot consists of a single setting . On the deck of what is believed to be a Greek warship , an officer commands a crew of sailors . The ship heels in heavy seas from port to starboard . The officer searches the horizon with binoculars . A shot is fired from the on-board gun. Then the deck is hit by an enemy shell and a sailor is wounded.
Production notes, rediscovery of the lost film
In the catalog of Méliès Star Film Company, the film bears the number 110. The visual effect is created by a moving stage that simulates the upper deck of the warship and which, through its rocking movements, creates the illusion of swell. The film is one of a series of Méliès productions that deal with the Greco-Turkish War.
Combat naval en Grèce was considered lost for decades until it was rediscovered in 1988 by John Barnes (* 1920) at the British Film Institute . It turned out that it had been registered in the archive catalog under an incorrect title.
literature
- Paul Hammond: Marvelous Méliès , London (Fraser) 1974.
- Jaques Malthête / Laurent Mannoni: L´oeuvre de Georges Méliès , Paris (Éditions de La Martinière) 2008.