The Man with the Rubber Head (French: L'Homme à la tête en caoutchouc), also known as A Swelled Head, is a 1901 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès...
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using an effect Méliès had invented the previous year for the film The Man with the Rubber Head. Rather than attempting to move his weighty camera toward...
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Star Film Company (category Film production companies of the United States)
losses in the American branch, Georges received all payments he was entitled to. The Man with the Rubber Head (1901) A Trip to the Moon (1902) The Yacht Race...
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Georges Méliès (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
shrinks when the Virgin Mary comes to the rescue of the damsel in distress. This effect was used again in The Man with the Rubber Head, in which Méliès...
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1901 in film (redirect from 1901 in the cinema)
produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – (GB) The Magic Sword, directed by Walter R. Booth – (GB) The Man with the Rubber Head (L'Homme à la tête en caoutchouc),...
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Trick film (category Articles with short description)
Blackton) The Christmas Dream (1900, Méliès) How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900, Hepworth) The One-Man Band (1900, Méliès) The Man with the Rubber Head (1901...
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Visual effects (category Articles with short description)
to the block in Mary's costume. As the executioner brought the axe above his head, Clark stopped the camera, had all the actors freeze, and had the person...
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use the key to activate the auto-machine, which produces a drawing of a rocket which has landed in one of the eyes of the "man in the Moon." The automaton...
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Rubber Johnny is a 2005 British experimental short film/music video written, directed, and produced by Chris Cunningham. The film, entirely presented in...
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Hugo (film) (category Films that won the Best Sound Editing Academy Award)
lives with his widowed father, a clockmaker who works at a museum. Hugo's father finds a broken automaton – a mechanical man created to write with a pen...
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Jehanne d'Alcy (category Articles with short description)
She was the wife of Georges Méliès from 1925 until his death in 1938. D'Alcy died at the age of 91 in 1956. She is buried with her husband in the Père-Lachaise...
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October 1957, 149-150. Goodman, Fred (2015). Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll. Boston, New York:...
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as the Rubber Chicken Man, is a Washington Nationals baseball fan who can be seen at most games at Nationals Park waving a rubber chicken over the Nationals...
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Recovering from the spectres' attack, the man is visibly dazed and is brought the woman from the cauldron, who impresses him with her beauty. Mephistopheles then...
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A rubber duck or a rubber duckie is a toy shaped like a duck, that is usually yellow with a flat base. It may be made of rubber or rubber-like material...
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undertaken by the learned world." At a meeting headed by President Polehunter, "assisted by Secretary Rattlebrain, by the Archivist Mole, by the Vice-president...
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Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 3 December 1965 in the United Kingdom on EMI's Parlophone...
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Rubber is a 2010 English-language French independent horror comedy film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. The film is about a tire that comes to...
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Joan of Arc (1900 film) (category Articles with short description)
them and travels to Vaucouleurs, where she meets with the governor, Captain Robert de Baudricourt. The dissipated Baudricourt initially scorns Joan's ideals...
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Georges Méliès filmography (category Articles with short description)
dives head first into the poster. Suddenly, the lights go on in the hall [where the film was projected]. The screen rises and uncovers, in the middle...
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examples include The Man with the Rubber Head, The Infernal Cake Walk, and The Melomaniac. The special effect of the talking head in a vase was created using...
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Cinderella (1899 film) (category Articles with short description)
the cabaret L'Enfer. Her appearance in Cinderella is contemporaneous with her performances at the Eldorado cabaret. She also appeared as Phoebe, the woman...
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known with certainty to survive. The eleven installments of the series follow the events of the Dreyfus affair from 1894 through September 1899, the month...
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undressed (with nudity simulated by a bodystocking). The maid helps the woman bathe, pouring water over her, and finally covers and dries her with a robe...
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decorated with devilish faces and a warped coat of arms, a gleeful demon throws three human victims into a cauldron, which spews out flames. The victims...
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Dunlop Ltd. (formerly Dunlop Rubber) was a British multinational company involved in the manufacture of various natural rubber goods. Its business was founded...
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The One Man Band (French: L'Homme-Orchestre) is a 1900 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company...
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in the United States as Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants and in the United Kingdom as Gulliver's Travels—In the land of the Lilliputians...
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The Four Troublesome Heads (French: Un homme de têtes, literally "A Man of Heads"), also known as Four Heads Are Better Than One, is an 1898 French silent...
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"Nowhere Man" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released in December 1965 on their album Rubber Soul, except in the United States...
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