The Marvellous Wreath
About The Marvellous Wreath
A musketeer, played by Méliès, hangs his hat, coat, and vest on the wall by magic and pulls two pages out of the coat. He makes a hoop, shoves it through a sheet of paper, and a clown bursts out of the papered ring. Flowers thrown onto the broken hoop become a wreath; a woman appears in it, then a huge grinning face, and the clown jumps into the face before an explosion. The pages turn into his coat and hat, and he disappears.
Cast & crew
More about The Marvellous Wreath
Star Film numbers 445–448, sold in the United States as The Marvellous Wreath and in Britain as The Marvellous Hoop. Méliès plays the musketeer.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The American catalogue called the hand-colored version an excellent view.
- Méliès used a similar circular multiple exposure later in 1903 in Alcofrisbas, the Master Magician.
- The pages hold the hoop the way circus performers hold a paper-covered ring for a leap.
- A Commons copy of the film carries the year 1902 in the filename. Star Film's catalogues place numbers 445–448 in 1903.
Scenes
- The papered hoop bursts and a clown climbs out.
- A woman steps from the flower wreath and is replaced by a grinning face that the clown jumps into.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (La Guirlande merveilleuse (1902).webm)
