Lost work by early film pioneer Melies found in PragueOctober 12, 2016 - 19:08 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Researchers at the Czech national film archives said Tuesday, October 11 they had found a film by early cinema pioneer Georgers Melies that was thought to have been lost forever, AFP reports. The silent two-minute "Match de prestidigitation" ("Conjuring contest"), dating from 1904, was found on a reel given to the archives by an anonymous donor, labelled as another film. Frenchman Melies, a stage magician turned movie-maker, is credited with developing many technical and narrative developments in the 500-plus movies he made between 1896 and 1912. "The reel was titled 'Les Transmutations imperceptibles' ('Imperceptible transmutations'), which is the name of another work by Melies. But our specialist immediately realised it was another film," archives spokeswoman Jana Ulipova told AFP. "Based on detailed analysis and research at the National Library of France, among other places, we can say with certainty that it is 'Match du prestidigitation', up to now considered lost." The recovered film shows a magician, who divides into two. The two doubles then take turns to perform tricks before merging back into one man. "We are planning to show the film in cinemas as part of a collection of Melies works," Ulipova said. The Czech archives have 22 movies by Melies, whose "Voyage dans la Lune" ("A Trip to the Moon") from 1902 is seen by many as the first ever science-fiction film. Most of the films made by Melies, who died in 1938, have been lost. A painstakingly restored colour version of "A Trip to the Moon" was screened at France's Cannes Film Festival in 2011. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |