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The Diabolical Church Window

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The Diabolical Church Window
Surviving fragment of the film
Directed byGeorges Méliès
CinematographyGeorgette Méliès
Production
company
Release date
  • 1911 (1911)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

The Diabolical Church Window (French: Le Vitrail diabolique) is a 1911 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was numbered 1548–1556 for the catalogues of Méliès's Star Film Company,[1] but it was ultimately produced and distributed by Pathé Frères,[2] who advertised it as with the subtitle magie vénitienne (Venetian magic).[1]

Méliès's daughter, Georgette Méliès, is believed to have been one of the two camera operators for this and the other five Méliès films made in 1911–1912.[3] Only a seven-minute portion of the film is currently known to survive; the rest is presumed lost.[4]

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Works cited

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  • Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, ISBN 9782732437323
  • Malthête, Jacques (2016), "Georgette Méliès", in Gaines, Jane; Vatsal, Radha; Dall'Asta, Monica (eds.), Women Film Pioneers Project, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University Libraries
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