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Director:

Georges Méliès

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Genre:

Short | Comedy | Fantasy more

Plot:

A chemist in his laboratory places upon a table his own head, alive; then fixing upon his head a rubber tube with a pair of bellows... more | add synopsis

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Cast

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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The India Rubber Head (International: English title)
The Man with the Rubber Head
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Runtime:

3 min

Country:

France

Sound Mix:

Silent

Company:

Star Film more


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Movie Connections:

Featured in Le grand Méliès (1952) more


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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
ka-boom!, 22 March 2002
9/10
Author: boblipton from New York City

Melies had a sense of playfulness about his films, and this is one of the more amusing ones: Melies takes a head -- which is Melies' head, attaches it to some bellows, and blows it up like a balloon. True, there's no deep thought involved, but there needn't be. It's less than a minute and easily sustains the one joke.

Melies was inventing techniques as he went along, borrowing from other media, just as D.W. Griffith shortly would. There is an exuberance in seeing something done for the first time that is sorely lacking in later uses of the same editing effect. I suppose it's because Melies was having fun himself.

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