The Bewitched Shepherd
About The Bewitched Shepherd
A young peasant quarrels with his wife and leaves the cottage. He meets a witch, who takes him into a cavern of goblins and other creatures and offers him a choice of women. She then makes his wife appear. He wakes sorry for the fight and they make up.
Cast & crew
More about The Bewitched Shepherd
Segundo de Chomón directed and wrote the short for Pathé Frères. The French title is L'Antre de la sorcière. French release is listed as 22 December 1906. Pathé issued stencil-colored prints.
Themes
Making
Pathé's stencil shop colored the witch's den frame by frame. The cavern, the goblins, and the line of women are trick substitutions rather than a staged play.
Technique
Pathé stencil color is applied over the trick work in the cavern.
Music
Silent. Surviving copies are stencil-colored.
Preservation
A stencil-colored print survives. Wikimedia Commons holds L'Antre de la sorcière (1906).webm, running 5 minutes 26 seconds.
Notes
- The Spanish title is El antro de la bruja.
- A Wikimedia copy runs 5 minutes 26 seconds.
- French Wikipedia notes the stencil coloring, coloration au pochoir.
- Chomón is credited as both director and writer.
Scenes
- The witch leads him into the cavern and lines up women for him to choose.
- His own wife is the last figure the witch produces.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (L'Antre de la sorcière (1906).webm)
