Le Grand Méliès
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Le Grand Méliès is a 1952 short documentary film
directed by Georges Franju
about the life of the film pioneer Georges Méliès
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Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by Georges Franju
Georges Franju
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about the life of the film pioneer Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès , full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects...
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Cast
- Jeanne d'AlcyJeanne d'AlcyJeanne d'Alcy was the earliest French film actress. She was the wife of French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès from 1926 until his death in 1938....
as Herself - François Lallement as Narrator (voice)
- André Méliès as Georges Méliès
- Marie-Georges Méliès as Herself / also voice : narrator