Long Distance Wireless Photography
About Long Distance Wireless Photography
In a glass-roofed workshop an inventor shows a lady and a gentleman a machine that projects living pictures. The Three Graces and a model in Grecian dress appear on the screen and move. When the lady sits, her projected head pulls faces and she faints. The gentleman's image comes back hairy and monkey-like. He tries to smash the machine and gets a shock that stands his hair on end. Other machines tear the lady's clothes down to a chemise and petticoats. The clients leave furious. The inventor and the servants laugh.
Cast & crew
More about Long Distance Wireless Photography
Georges Méliès directed and plays the inventor. Fernande Albany plays the lady. Star Film numbered it 1091–1095. The British title was Electrical Photographer. The French title is La Photographie électrique à distance. The set imitates a glass-and-iron photography studio, like Méliès's own. The negative is 115 meters.
Themes
Look
The painted studio has a glass roof, built to look like the iron-and-glass photography rooms of the period.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The effects are substitution splices, superimpositions, and dissolves.
- The gentleman's portrait turns him into something like an ape.
- The clients do not get a flattering result, and the inventor does not apologize.
Scenes
- The lady's screen image grimaces until she faints.
- A shock from the machine leaves the gentleman's hair on end.
Also available
- Internet Archive (Long_Distance_Wireless_Photography)
