Jump to content

Tom Old Boot: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
←Created page with '{{Infobox film | name = Tom Old Boot | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Georges Méliès | starring...'
 
 
(14 intermediate revisions by 10 users not shown)
Line 14: Line 14:
}}
}}


'''''Tom Old Boot (a grotesque dwarf)''''' ({{lang-fr|'''Tom Old Boot (nain grotesque)'''}}) was an 1896 French [[short film|short]] [[silent film]] by [[Georges Méliès]]. It was sold by Méliès's [[Star Film Company]] and is numbered 75 in its catalogues.<ref name=MM>{{citation|last=Malthête|first=Jacques|last2=Mannoni|first2=Laurent|title=L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès|year=2008|publication-place=Paris|publisher=Éditions de La Martinière|isbn=9782732437323|page=337}}</ref>
'''''Tom Old Boot (a grotesque dwarf)''''' ({{lang-fr|'''Tom Old Boot (nain grotesque)'''}}) was an 1896 French [[short film|short]] [[silent film]] by [[Georges Méliès]]. It was sold by Méliès's [[Star Film Company]] and is film #75 in its catalogues.<ref name=MM>{{citation|last1=Malthête|first1=Jacques|last2=Mannoni|first2=Laurent|title=L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès|year=2008|publication-place=Paris|publisher=Éditions de La Martinière|isbn=9782732437323|page=337}}</ref>


Though no synopsis survives,<ref name=Images>{{citation|last=Malthête|first=Jacques|title=Méliès: images et illusions|location=Paris|publisher=Exporégie|year=1996|page=203}}</ref> the film appears to have captured a performance by Tom Old Boot, a small-sized entertainer who played at Méliès's stage venue, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin, as an "American dwarf" ("''nain americain''").<ref name=Guido>{{citation|first=Laurent|last=Guido|chapter=De la performance scénique à la ciné-chorégraphie: Les avatars de la danse chez Georges Méliès|pages=63–72 (here 63)|title=Méliès, carrefour des attractions; suivi de Correspondances de Georges Méliès (1904-1937)|editor1-first=Jacques|editor1-last=Malthête|editor2-first=André|editor2-last=Gaudreault|editor3-first=Laurent|editor3-last=Le Forestier|location=Rennes|publisher=Presses universitaires de Rennes|year=2014}}</ref> The magazine ''[[La Vie Parisienne (magazine)|La Vie Parisienne]]'' reported Tom Old Boot playing at the Robert-Houdin in late December 1895 at Thursday and Sunday matinées with great success, getting many laughs, especially from the children in the audiences.<ref>{{citation|author=Pitt|title=Paris-Partout|page=742|journal=La Vie Parisienne|date=1895-12-21|volume=33|issue=51|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/La_Vie_parisienne/0chtzNNtlNYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA742&printsec=frontcover}}</ref> The newspaper ''[[Le Petit Parisien]]'', reporting on March 1896 performances at the Robert-Houdin, called Tom Old Boot a "joyful, eccentric dwarf comedian" ("''joyeux nain comic excentric''").<ref>{{citation|title=Courrier des Théâtres|page=3|journal=Le Petit Parisien|volume=21|issue=7079|date=1896-03-15|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5177583/f3.item.r=%22tom%20old%20boot%22}}</ref>
Though no synopsis survives,<ref name=Images>{{citation|last=Malthête|first=Jacques|title=Méliès: images et illusions|location=Paris|publisher=Exporégie|year=1996|page=203}}</ref> the film appears to have captured a performance by Tom Old Boot, a small-sized entertainer, who played at Méliès's stage venue, the [[Théâtre Robert-Houdin]], as an "American [[dwarfism|dwarf]]" ("''nain americain''").<ref name=Guido>{{citation|first=Laurent|last=Guido|chapter=De la performance scénique à la ciné-chorégraphie: Les avatars de la danse chez Georges Méliès|pages=63–72 (here 63)|title=Méliès, carrefour des attractions; suivi de Correspondances de Georges Méliès (1904-1937)|editor1-first=Jacques|editor1-last=Malthête|editor2-first=André|editor2-last=Gaudreault|editor3-first=Laurent|editor3-last=Le Forestier|location=Rennes|publisher=Presses universitaires de Rennes|year=2014}}</ref> The magazine ''[[La Vie Parisienne (magazine)|La Vie Parisienne]]'' reported that Tom Old Boot was playing at the Robert-Houdin Theatre in late December 1895, at Thursday and Sunday matinées. The reports claimed that the performances were a great success, getting many laughs, especially from the children in the audiences.<ref>{{citation|author=Pitt|title=Paris-Partout|page=742|journal=La Vie Parisienne|date=1895-12-21|volume=33|issue=51|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0chtzNNtlNYC&pg=PA742}}</ref> The newspaper ''[[Le Petit Parisien]]'' reported on the March 1896 performances at the Robert-Houdin and called Tom Old Boot a "joyful, eccentric, dwarf comedian" ("''joyeux nain comic excentric''").<ref>{{citation|title=Courrier des Théâtres|page=3|journal=Le Petit Parisien|volume=21|issue=7079|date=1896-03-15|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5177583/f3.item.r=%22tom%20old%20boot%22}}</ref>


The film ''Tom Old Boot'' is currently presumed [[lost film|lost]].<ref name=MM/>
The film ''Tom Old Boot'' is presumed [[lost film|lost]].<ref name=MM/>


==References==
==References==
Line 27: Line 27:
{{Georges Méliès}}
{{Georges Méliès}}
{{Authority control}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:French black-and-white films]]
[[Category:French black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Georges Méliès]]
[[Category:Films directed by Georges Méliès]]
[[Category:French silent short films]]
[[Category:French silent short films]]
[[Category:Lost films]]
[[Category:Lost French films]]
[[Category:1890s lost films]]
[[Category:1896 short films]]
[[Category:1890s French films]]
[[Category:Films about people with dwarfism]]

{{France-silent-film-stub}}

Latest revision as of 18:01, 5 March 2024

Tom Old Boot
Directed byGeorges Méliès
StarringTom Old Boot
Production
company
Release date
  • 1896 (1896)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

Tom Old Boot (a grotesque dwarf) (French: Tom Old Boot (nain grotesque)) was an 1896 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is film #75 in its catalogues.[1]

Though no synopsis survives,[2] the film appears to have captured a performance by Tom Old Boot, a small-sized entertainer, who played at Méliès's stage venue, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin, as an "American dwarf" ("nain americain").[3] The magazine La Vie Parisienne reported that Tom Old Boot was playing at the Robert-Houdin Theatre in late December 1895, at Thursday and Sunday matinées. The reports claimed that the performances were a great success, getting many laughs, especially from the children in the audiences.[4] The newspaper Le Petit Parisien reported on the March 1896 performances at the Robert-Houdin and called Tom Old Boot a "joyful, eccentric, dwarf comedian" ("joyeux nain comic excentric").[5]

The film Tom Old Boot is presumed lost.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 337, ISBN 9782732437323
  2. ^ Malthête, Jacques (1996), Méliès: images et illusions, Paris: Exporégie, p. 203
  3. ^ Guido, Laurent (2014), "De la performance scénique à la ciné-chorégraphie: Les avatars de la danse chez Georges Méliès", in Malthête, Jacques; Gaudreault, André; Le Forestier, Laurent (eds.), Méliès, carrefour des attractions; suivi de Correspondances de Georges Méliès (1904-1937), Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 63–72 (here 63)
  4. ^ Pitt (1895-12-21), "Paris-Partout", La Vie Parisienne, 33 (51): 742
  5. ^ "Courrier des Théâtres", Le Petit Parisien, 21 (7079): 3, 1896-03-15

External links[edit]

Stub icon

This article related to a French silent film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Old_Boot&oldid=1212003412"