| Le Barbier de Séville | |
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 Cover of a 1904 brochure advertising the film | |
| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
| Based on | The Barber of Seville by Pierre Beaumarchais |
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| Running time | 22 minutes 412 meters/1340 feet 295 meters/960 feet (abridged) |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
The Barber of Seville (French: Le Barbier de Séville), also released as The Barber of Sevilla, or the Useless Precaution, was a 1904 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on the 1775 play of the same name by Pierre Beaumarchais. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 606–625 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a comédie burlesque en 7 actes, d'après Beaumarchais. Like several other of Méliès's longer films, two versions were released simultaneously: a complete 22-minute print and an abridged print.
As with his 1904 film Faust and Marguerite, Méliès prepared a special film score for The Barber of Seville, adapted from the most well-known arias from the Rossini opera. Like at least 4% of Méliès's entire output (including such films as A Trip to the Moon, The Impossible Voyage, The Kingdom of the Fairies, and The Rajah's Dream), some prints were individually hand-colored and sold at a higher price.
The film is currently presumed lost.
References
- ^ Hammond, Paul (1974). Marvellous Méliès. London: Gordon Fraser. p. 58. ISBN 0900406380.
- ^ Hammond, p. 143.
- ^ Frazer, John (1979). Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co. p. 250. ISBN 0816183686.
- Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008). L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès. Paris: Éditions de La Martinière. p. 170. ISBN 978-2-7324-3732-3.
- Marks, Martin Miller (1997). Music and the Silent Film: Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 72. ISBN 0195068912. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- Yumibe, Joshua (2012). Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. p. 73. ISBN 9780813552965. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
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