The Moving Picture World/Volume 1/Number 1/Robert Macaire & Bertrand
Robert Macaire & Bertrand
The latest production of George Méliès consists of a series of twenty-five scenes from the play so well known to old theater-goers, and illustrates the clever antics of those two French sneak-theives and hoboes, and their escapades in the inn, with the police after them, whom they lead some merry antics. The following are the scenes represented:
1, The Sneak-Thieves' Inn; 2, The International Bank; 3, The Interior of the Bank; 4, Behind the Scenes; 5, The Costume Room; 6, A Statue as an Accomplice; 7, The Railway Station; 8, A Small Way-Station; 9, A Terrific Earthquake; 10, The Market-Place; 11, Hurled into the Clouds; 12, Planted on the Roofs; 15, Played Out; 16, The Farm; 17, the Murder of the Dummy; 18, The Death of the Two Heroes; 19, Resurrection; 20, The Balloon; 21, The Kidnapping of a "Cop"; 22, The Start; 23, In the Air; 24, The Balloon-Car; 25, The Column of the Bastille.
This film is as fine a specimen of a trick film that has been produced, showing great ingenuity and conception.