Let Me Dream Again
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About Let Me Dream Again
A man kisses a lively young woman. The image goes soft, then clears on the same man waking beside his wife. George Albert Smith directed. Laura Bayley, his wife, plays the woman in the dream. Tom Green is billed with her.
Cast & crew
More about Let Me Dream Again
Smith photographed and produced the one-minute short in his studio, the former pump house at St Ann's Well Gardens in Hove. The bed is set upright against a wall in front of a camera fixed to the floor, so the couple look as if they are lying down. Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline describes the soft join as a primitive dissolve: the first shot slips out of focus and the second starts soft and sharpens. Ferdinand Zecca remade it for Pathé as Dream and Reality (1901). Bayley is also in Smith's Mary Jane's Mishap (1903).
Themes
Look
Smith let the dream slip out of focus and brought the waking shot from soft to sharp. The camera stayed on the floor in front of an upright bed.
Notes
- The dream woman and the wife are separated by the focus change, not by a title.
- The couple are standing. The set makes them look horizontal.
- No public copy is linked on the catalog row.
Scenes
- The kiss goes soft, and the next clear frame is the man beside his wife.
Influenced
- Dream and Reality (1901)
