Long Distance Wireless Photography

Long Distance Wireless Photography

1908 · 6 min · ★ 5.5 · Science Fiction, Comedy

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a demonstration: he starts machines whirring, and projects a painting of three women onto a large screen; suddenly the women begin to move. The customers are impressed. First the women sits in the special seat: she's projected onto the screen, and her good nature comes out in the laughing image. Then it's the man's turn, but the machine discloses a vastly different nature in him. Will his reaction threaten our proprietor's inventions?

Directed by Georges Méliès

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

21m together

Long Distance Wireless Photography

A Trip to the Moon

Both from Georges Méliès.

More from Georges MélièsSee all →

A Trip to the Moon

A Trip to the Moon · 1902

A Trip to the Moon

MovieAdventureScience Fiction

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

The Impossible Voyage

The Impossible Voyage · 1904

The Impossible Voyage

MovieAdventureComedy

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

The Four Troublesome Heads

The Four Troublesome Heads · 1898

The Four Troublesome Heads

MovieComedyFantasy

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.

The Astronomer's Dream

The Astronomer's Dream · 1900

The Astronomer's Dream

MovieFantasyHorror

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc · 1900

MovieDramaHistory

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

The Kingdom of the Fairies

The Kingdom of the Fairies · 1903

The Kingdom of the Fairies

MovieAdventureFantasy

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon returns, summons some of her servants, and carries off the princess. A rescue party is quickly organized, but the unfortunate captive has been taken to a strange, forbidding realm, from where it will be impossible to rescue her without some special help.

Gugusse and the Automaton

Gugusse and the Automaton · 1897

Gugusse and the Automaton

MovieComedyFantasy

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match

The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match · 1900

The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match

MovieComedyFantasy

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

Tunneling the English Channel

Tunneling the English Channel · 1907

Tunneling the English Channel

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

Le manoir du diable

Le manoir du diable · 1896

Le manoir du diable

MovieFantasyHorror

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.

Bluebeard

Bluebeard · 1901

MovieDramaHorror

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

The Vanishing Lady

The Vanishing Lady · 1896

The Vanishing Lady

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Cinderella

Cinderella · 1899

MovieDramaFamily

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out? Méliès based the art direction on engravings by Gustave Doré. First known example of a fairy-tale adapted to film, and the first film to use dissolves to go from one scene to another.

An Extraordinary Dislocation

An Extraordinary Dislocation · 1901

An Extraordinary Dislocation

MovieComedyFantasy

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

A Nightmare

A Nightmare · 1896

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon · 1907

The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

MovieComedyFantasy

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.

More Like This

Metropolis

Metropolis · 1927

MovieDramaScience Fiction

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

The Rink

The Rink · 1916

After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter