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The Frozen Policeman

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The Frozen Policeman
Directed byGeorges Méliès
Production
company
Release date
  • 1908 (1908)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

The Frozen Policeman[1] (French: L'Agent gelé) is a 1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. No Star Film Company catalogue number is known for it.[2]

The film is rare among Méliès's fiction films in using location shooting of real outdoor landscapes rather than painted scenery.[3] Some of the Méliès family property in Montreuil-sous-Bois can be seen in it, including outside views of Méliès's parents' house and his first glass studio, Studio A.[4]

No English-language release is documented for the film,[2] but the translated title The Frozen Policeman has been used in academic work.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Gordon, Rae Beth (2001), Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. xvi
  2. ^ a b Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 355, ISBN 9782732437323
  3. ^ Lack, Roland François (2018), "Lumière, Méliès, Pathé & Gaumont: French Filmmaking in the Suburbs, 1896-1920", in Met, Philippe; Schilling, Derek (eds.), Screening the Paris suburbs, from the Silent Era to the 1990s, Manchester: Manchester University Press
  4. ^ Mény, Jacques (1997), "Méliès imaginé ou images de Méliès au cinéma et à la télévision", in Malthête, Jacques; Marie, Michel (eds.), Georges Méliès, l'illusionniste fin de siècle?: actes du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 13–22 août 1996, Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle, p. 400, ISBN 2878541405

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