Love and Molasses,[1][2] also known as His First Job and in French as Amour et mélasse,[3] is a 1908 French short silent film credited to Georges Méliès. It was sold in the United States by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1246–1249 in its catalogues; no release is documented in Méliès's native France at the time.[1]
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| Directed by | Georges Méliès or Manuel |
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| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
A 1981 analysis of the film's style, published in a Centre national de la cinématographie guide to Méliès's work, concluded that this film is probably one of those directed by Méliès's employee, an actor known as Manuel.[4] The "molasses" featured in the film is actually water; the film's special effects are worked with substitution splices.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 354, ISBN 9782732437323
- ^ Hammond, Paul (1974), Marvellous Méliès, London: Gordon Fraser, p. 146, ISBN 0900406380
- ^ Méliès, Georges (2008), Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (DVD; short film collection), Los Angeles: Flicker Alley, ISBN 1893967352
- ^ a b Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France, Bois d'Arcy: Service des archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie, 1981, p. 329, ISBN 2903053073