The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship
About The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship
Crazybrains, in a room papered with airship drawings, dances because he has designed a new dirigible. He naps. Imps tear at his papers. He dreams the airship rising over the roofs, crossing the clouds, with women posed in the sky. A fireball hits the ship. It bursts in fire and smoke, and the imps return. He wakes, runs around the room, and knocks the plans onto the floor.
Cast & crew
More about The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship
Georges Méliès directed and plays Crazybrains. Star Film numbers 786–788. The French title is Le Dirigeable fantastique ou le Cauchemar d'un inventeur. In Britain it was Fantastical Air Ship. It runs 3 minutes. A hand-colored print, probably colored in Elisabeth Thuillier's laboratory, is at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands and was restored in 1991.
Themes
Making
The airship and the figures in the clouds are staged as a dream inside one room, with the inventor asleep in the foreground.
Preservation
A hand-colored print survives at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands and was restored in 1991. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The dream begins only after he lies down among the drawings.
- Women appear reclining in the sky around the ship.
- The fireball ends the flight and throws him back into the room.
- EYE's print is hand-colored.
Scenes
- Imps scatter the papers while Crazybrains sleeps.
- The airship climbs through clouds with women posed in the sky.
- He wakes and throws the plans on the floor.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Le Dirigeable fantastique (Georges Méliès, 1905).webm)
- EYE Film Institute Netherlands
