Gaston Méliès

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Georges Méliès

Gaston Méliès, Georges Méliès

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.

The Gipsy's Warning

Gaston Méliès

Florence Turner, Hector Dion

The story centers on a gregarious but rather undependable man whose attentions to a young gypsy woman lead to complications for them both.

Le voyage de M. Bourrichon

Gaston Méliès, Georges Méliès

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

Gaston Méliès and his Wandering Star Film Company

Raphaël Millet

Gaston Méliès

In 1912-1913, movie pioneer Gaston Méliès, brother of Georges Méliès, did a ten month long trip around Asia-Pacific, shooting both documentaries and fictions on location in Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia, Java, Singapore, Cambodia and Japan. He wanted the “real” thing” he filmed, with the locals, being one of the first to give Polynesians, Maoris, Aborigines and Khmers a chance to appear on screen. His hybrid cinema dealt with questions of alterity, identity and representation.