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An Artist's Dream (1900) Online

An Artist's Dream (1900) Online
1900 Edwin S. Porter
Original Title :
An Artistu0027s Dream
Genre :
Movie / Short / Comedy
Year :
1900
Directror :
Edwin S. Porter
Type :
Movie
Rating :
4.9/10

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The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from the frames and walk forward, admiring ... See full summary

An Artist's Dream (1900) Online

The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from the frames and walk forward, admiring their costumes. Mephisto then touches the artist on the shoulder, awakening him, and disappears. The artist, after rubbing his eyes, sees the picture on his right hand side and jumps up to embrace her. After embracing her once, he makes a second attempt and she disappears. The artist now wakes up, jumps to his feet, and runs to see if the picture are still in the frames. He examines them and finding that they are still fast on the wall, realizes that the has been dreaming and seeks consolation in the bottle.


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Dibei

Dibei

When you are rating a movie from the beginning of the 20th century, it's always hard to compare the quality and techniques with that of modern movies. "An artist's dream" is an early movie (1900) which shows a good attempt to explore the possibilities of this new art-form. The sudden appearances and disappearances of people in this movie are very well done. With one single camera-position (very common for those days) the discontinuities with the cuts can hardly be seen. The actors take one the right position to continue the act after the cut.

Although movies of that time have very bad quality, it's a great pleasure watching them, when they are made with such an originality as this one. It's worth every minute ...
Zamo

Zamo

Artist's Dream, An (1900)

*** (out of 4)

A "magic" film from the Edison Studios once again borrows heavily from the French master Georges Melies. This time out an artist is sleeping when Mephisto appears and signals two pictures to come to life. Running just over a minute this film makes for some great entertainment even though the movie isn't quite as funny as it tries to be. The big trick here was the actual magic trick and it comes off very well. The special effects are easy to see how they were done but that really doesn't take away any of the entertainment. Fans of early cinema will certainly want to check this out even though it can't touch the best work from Melies.
Stanober

Stanober

This film is very similar to several films by the French director, Georges Méliès. Méliès had been a stage magician and brought these sensibilities to the screen. He often featured magicians doing their act and made things appear and disappear simply by starting and stopping the film. Additionally, in some of these he wore his 'Mephisto' outfit which was supposed to be a devilish character. Well, in "An Artist's Dream" we have someone wearing a similar Mephisto outfit and lots of ladies appearing and disappearing--and you'd swear it was the work of Georges Méliès if you didn't know any better.

The plot consists of a sleeping artist dreaming. In the dream, ladies in his paintings come to life but every time he tries to catch them, they disappear--all due to that accursed Mr. Mephisto! Reasonably well done...but a rip-off nonetheless.