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Ballerinas in Hell
A Georges Méliès Album
(1898-1912)

 

Contents: Le Magicien [The Magician] (1898), Le Voyage dans la lune [A Trip to the Moon] (1902), Le Rêve d’un Maitre de Ballet [The Ballet Master’s Dream] (1903), Le Royaume des fées [Fairyland; or, The Kingdom of the Fairies] (1903), Le Palais des mille et une nuits [The Arabian Nights] (1905), La Legende de Rip van Winkle [Rip’s Dream] (1905), Les Quatre cents farces du diable [The Merry Frolics of Satan] (1906) and À la conquête du pôle [The Conquest of the Pole] (1912) [abridged].

This early independent edition is of subpar quality compared to more recent home video releases of Méliès films.

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2004 DVD edition

Ballerinas in Hell: A Georges Méliès Album (1898-1912), black & white, 58 minutes total, not rated, including Le Magicien [The Magician] (1898), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Le Voyage dans la lune [A Trip to the Moon] (1902), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Le Rêve d’un Maitre de Ballet [The Ballet Master’s Dream] (1903), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Le royaume des fées [Fairyland; or, The Kingdom of the Fairies] (1903), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Le Palais des mille et une nuits [The Arabian Nights] (1905), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, La Legende de Rip van Winkle [Rip’s Dream] (1905), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Les Quatre cents farces du diable [The Merry Frolics of Satan] (1906), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and À la conquête du pôle [The Conquest of the Pole] (1912) [abridged], black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Unknown Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 22 November 2004.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection of Méliès films, originally released on VHS videotape in 1998, has been mastered from 16mm reduction prints. Some prints, such as A Trip to the Moon (above), are quite dark.

The program features organ musical accompaniment performed by Bob Vaughn.

Compared to other Méliès discs out there, this one is rough going. Not recommended.

 
UNKNOWN VIDEO has discontinued business and this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is . . .
Other GEORGES MÉLIÈS films available on home video.

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