The Pearl Fisherman
About The Pearl Fisherman
A vision of women calling him sends a man into the sea. He walks on the ocean floor, meets sea creatures, and comes to a giant oyster. When the shell opens, the dive turns into a further adventure among the figures inside.
Cast & crew
More about The Pearl Fisherman
Ferdinand Zecca directed for Pathé Frères. Segundo de Chomón photographed it. Silent Era lists 160 metres and the English titles The Pearl Fisher and Down in the Deep. A print exists. A Wikimedia file of the picture runs 7 minutes 28 seconds. Some release prints were hand-colored.
Themes
Making
The sea bottom is a studio floor with painted creatures and a built oyster, not an underwater camera.
Look
Segundo de Chomón photographed the studio sea floor and the trick joins as the diver moves from one creature to the next.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
Silent Era lists a surviving print. Wikimedia Commons holds a copy running 7 minutes 28 seconds.
Notes
- Chomón, who directed other Pathé tricks that year, is the cameraman here, with Zecca directing.
- Silent Era records that a print exists.
- The 160-metre length is the catalogue figure. The Commons file is shorter, at 7 minutes 28 seconds.
- English-language titles include The Pearl Fisher and Down in the Deep.
- Colored copies used Pathé's hand-coloring on the sea creatures and the figures in the oyster.
Scenes
- The diver steps along the studio sea floor among the creatures.
- The giant oyster opens and the next trick begins inside the shell.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Le pêcheur de perles (1907) .webm)
