Pharmaceutical Hallucinations
About Pharmaceutical Hallucinations
In a chemistry laboratory someone swallows the wrong preparation. The picture then moves to a wizard in a cave, a fairy, and a feast of about a dozen people. A giant snail crosses the vision.
Cast & crew
More about Pharmaceutical Hallucinations
Georges Méliès sold it as Star Film numbers 1416–1428. The French title is Hallucinations pharmaceutiques ou le Truc du potard. Wikidata times it at 13 minutes. Effects use stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution splices, and multiple exposures. Bleuette Bernon is in the catalog cast.
Themes
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The giant snail prop had already been used in Méliès's 1906 film The Chimney Sweep.
- The second half of the French title means the chemist's trick.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- After the laboratory dose, a giant snail appears among the cave visions.
Influenced by
- The Chimney Sweep (1906), for the snail prop
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Hallucinations pharmaceutiques ou le Truc du potard)
