The Fairy of the Surf
About The Fairy of the Surf
A man takes two friends out in a rowboat because he says fairies dance on the water. They see the dancers and catch one. He brings her to a castle, asks her to marry him, and she wants to go back to the sea.
Cast & crew
More about The Fairy of the Surf
Louis Feuillade directed it for Gaumont as a free adaptation of Paul Féval's novel La Fée des grèves. The French release was 13 September 1909.
Themes
Making
Feuillade places the capture in a boat on open water, then cuts to a studio castle in Renaissance costume. The last passage returns to a painted proscenium.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The French title is La Fée des grèves.
- Féval's novel, set in 1450 around the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, had run as a serial in La Gazette de France before this short was made.
- Some frames in the surviving print are hand-colored.
Scenes
- Three men in a rowboat haul a dancing fairy aboard.
- After he brings her to the castle, he asks her to marry him.
Influenced by
- Paul Féval's novel La Fée des grèves
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-la-fe-des-grves)
