Il Medioevo di Georges Méliès - Medioevo magico: diavoli e maghi, roghi e streghe

Le cake-walk infernal

1903, regia di Georges Méliès

Scheda: Nazione: Francia - Produzione: Georges Méliès,  Star-Film - Distribuzione: Georges Méliès, Star-Film, Facets Multimedia Distribution, Divisa Home Video, Flicker Alley - Soggetto: Georges Méliès - Montaggio: Georges Méliès - Scenografia: Georges Méliès - Effetti speciali: Georges Méliès - Formato: B.N. e colorato a mano, muto, corto - Durata: 5'.

Cast: Georges Méliès.

Trama e commenti: youtube.com: «...Il Diavolo, a dispetto delle sue storte zampe caprine, si rivela un ottimo ballerino. Può infatti far uso di certi "trucchi", come staccarsi gambe e braccia e farle dimenare a tempo di musica a distanza dal suo corpo...».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - fr.wikipedia.org - voyagesextraordinaires.blogspot.it - scifilm.org: «In the flaming world where the demons and devils live, the cake-walk becomes the dance of the day. It appears that I haven't reached the end of covering the oeuvre of Georges Melies; here's another one. The cake-walk was a dance that became very popular in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century; it's popped up in several Melies shorts. Here it takes center stage, only in a milieu that lent itself to Melies's love for special effect. More than any other of the shorts I've seen, this one seems to be intended as a comic dance short; though dances have popped up many times in those shorts, they were generally side items to the action. Fortunately, it's a fun dance to watch; it's energetic, somewhat weird-looking, and it looks like it's rather difficult to do. Things get especially weird when a demon with twisted legs attempts to do the dance, though his limbs keep separating themselves from his body. It's one of his shorts that really needs the proper musical accompaniment to appreciate; fortunately, the print on the Melies boxed set has some very appropriate music. This is fun, if minor, Melies».

Conosciuto anche con il titolo: The Infernal Cake-Walk.

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