Sightseeing Through Whisky
About Sightseeing Through Whisky
Tourists, among them a tired woman and a drunken footman called John, reach a ruined temple in a rocky landscape. John drinks from a bottle and sees classical figures, women posed in tableaux, a festival of Bacchantes, and Dionysus on a donkey. He takes the tired tourist for one of the visions. She fights him off, and the others drag him away.
Cast & crew
More about Sightseeing Through Whisky
Star Film numbered it 1000–1004. The French title is Pauvre John ou les Aventures d'un buveur de whisky. It is credited to Georges Méliès. A study of the style concludes that his assistant Manuel probably supervised the shooting. Manuel plays John. Fernande Albany plays the tired tourist.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The hallucinations include a fountain of fire as well as the Bacchic procession.
- John is a footman with the sightseeing party, not a tourist who simply lags behind.
- Fernande Albany is the woman he mistakes for a vision.
Scenes
- John watches Dionysus ride a donkey through the ruin.
- He grabs the tired tourist, and the party hauls him off.
