Eight Girls in a Barrel
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About Eight Girls in a Barrel
A barrel is set on a stand in the middle of the stage. Georges Méliès shows that it is not joined to the floor, then sends eight girls into it one after another without filling it. He ends by showing the barrel empty.
Cast & crew
More about Eight Girls in a Barrel
The French title is Le Tonneau des Danaïdes. Méliès stages the stage-magic packing trick and stops the camera so the barrel can be shown empty at the end.
Themes
Music
Silent.
Notes
- The Danaïdes of the French title are the fifty daughters of Danaus. The film uses the name and not that story.
- A Lobster Films synopsis counts eight girls and ends on the empty barrel.
- The trick is the same barrel illusion used on stage, with the splice doing the work the cabinet used to do.
- The listed running time is one minute.
Scenes
- He sends the eight girls in one by one.
- The last look shows the barrel empty.
