The Imaginative George Melies
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Bob Kick: The Mischievous Kid Two films by early filmmaker George Melies copied by the Library of Congress in 1968 from original 35mm paper positives to preserve the work of one of the first filmmaker’s to use moving pictures for story telling by filming people acting on stage and experimenting with trick photography.
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Margaret Conneely Collection
Subjects: Magic; Motion picture production & direction; Motion picture industry
Language: English
Shot log: 00:00 - title cards brief history on George Melies and the preservation of these two films; 01:48 - Bob Kick: The Mischievous Kid (1903) - Mischievous Kid drinks alcohol and begins to hallucinate as taunting characters appear and disappear before his eyes; 04:17-07:23 - The Drawing Lesson or The Living Statue (1903) - artist uses magic to make a living statue appear to be the model for a drawing class until his model disappears causing havoc in the class
Cfa elements: Print, 175 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2687
Subjects: Magic; Motion picture production & direction; Motion picture industry
Language: English
Shot log: 00:00 - title cards brief history on George Melies and the preservation of these two films; 01:48 - Bob Kick: The Mischievous Kid (1903) - Mischievous Kid drinks alcohol and begins to hallucinate as taunting characters appear and disappear before his eyes; 04:17-07:23 - The Drawing Lesson or The Living Statue (1903) - artist uses magic to make a living statue appear to be the model for a drawing class until his model disappears causing havoc in the class
Cfa elements: Print, 175 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2687
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:06