A Fantastical Meal
About A Fantastical Meal
Two women and a man sit down to dinner and the room turns on them. Chairs shift, the soup tureen swells, boots come out of it, the table legs change length, and the table itself vanishes and returns. A ghost dances on the tabletop, becomes a box of dynamite, and explodes. The man tumbles around the room.
Cast & crew
More about A Fantastical Meal
Georges Méliès directed. French title Le Repas fantastique. Star Film number 311. A timed print runs 1 minute 26 seconds.
Themes
Background
A Star Film trick short of 1900, one scene at a dinner table.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Wikidata lists the duration as 2 minutes. The English Wikipedia times a print at 1 minute 26 seconds.
- Méliès is in the cast.
Scenes
- Boots climb out of the swollen soup tureen.
- The ghost on the table turns into dynamite and blows up.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Le Repas fantastique.webm)
