Sweet Dreams Intermingled With Nightmares
About Sweet Dreams Intermingled With Nightmares
A young princess falls asleep beside a lake. Spirits of the lake carry her to a cave, where gnomes prepare to burn her alive. She wakes, then sleeps again. A fairy of the lake appears, and a handsome prince whispers to her. She wakes a second time and finds an aged marquis in the prince's place.
Cast & crew
More about Sweet Dreams Intermingled With Nightmares
Segundo de Chomón directed the fantasy for Pathé. Julienne Mathieu plays the dreamer. The French title is Cauchemar et doux rêve. Other English titles are Tormenting and Sweet Dream. A poster was drawn by Vincent Lorant-Heilbronn. The French Wikipedia timing is 4 minutes 45 seconds.
Themes
Making
The short is two dreams in one nap: a cave and a fire, then a fairy and a courtier, then the marquis who is actually there.
Notes
- Mathieu was Chomón's wife and the regular lead of his Pathé trick films.
- The nightmare half uses oversized gnome heads.
- The pleasant dream ends by putting an old marquis where the prince stood.
Scenes
- Gnomes in the cave ready the princess for the fire.
- She wakes, sleeps again, and meets the prince.
- The man beside her is the old marquis.
