The Bewitched Inn
About The Bewitched Inn
A traveler in riding boots and a pith helmet takes a room and tries to sleep. The bed vanishes and returns, candles blow up, his trousers fly around the room, and the boots he has taken off walk away by themselves. He gives up and leaves.
Cast & crew
More about The Bewitched Inn
Georges Méliès directed and plays the traveler. Star Film listed it as numbers 122–123. It was shot at his glass studio in Montreuil.
Themes
Making
Méliès, still a stage magician, performs the guest himself and cuts the tricks in the camera rather than on a stage trap.
Technique
Substitution splices remove the bed. Wires carry the trousers. The walking boots are animated in the same room.
Preservation
A print exists.
Notes
- French title: L'Auberge ensorcelée.
- The first Méliès film in which furniture and clothes come alive to torment their owner.
- Wires move the objects. Pyrotechnics burst the candles. Disappearances are substitution splices.
- A print survives. Silent Era lists it as a trick film of about two minutes.
Scenes
- The bed disappears while the traveler is trying to use it.
- His boots walk out of the room on their own.
