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How Bridget's Lover Escaped

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How Bridget's Lover Escaped
Directed byGeorges Méliès
StarringFernande Albany
Production
company
Release date
  • 1907 (1907)
Running time
142 meters
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

How Bridget's Lover Escaped (French: Le Mariage de Victorine), also known as Le Mariage de Victoire,[1] is a 1907 French short silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès.

Plot

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Production

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The cast includes Fernande Albany as the cook (Victorine in the French release of the film, Bridget in the American version), and the actor Manuel as her fiancé the fireman.[2] The scene outside the house was filmed outdoors, using Méliès's own house in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis.[2]

The film includes examples of substitution splicing,[2] as well as two experimental techniques relatively rare in Méliès's films: a three-scene cross-cutting sequence, and a medium shot used to give the audience a final glimpse of the cook and her fiancé.[3]

Release

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The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 929–935 in its catalogues.[4] It was registered for American copyright at the Library of Congress on 26 April 1907. The film's release was first advertised in the press on 1 July 1907, in the Phono-Ciné-Gazette.[4]

An unedited print of the film on 16mm stock survives at the Library of Congress.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Hammond, Paul (1974), Marvellous Méliès, London: Gordon Fraser, p. 145, ISBN 0900406380
  2. ^ a b c 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, pp. 271–73, ISBN 2903053073, OCLC 10506429
  3. ^ a b Abel, Richard (1998), The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896–1914, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 501, ISBN 9780520912915
  4. ^ a b Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 351, ISBN 9782732437323