The Doctor's Secret
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Jump to navigationJump to searchTHE DOCTOR'S SECRET. Méliès, Georges|Georges Méliès, dir. 1900. Excerpted Marvelous Melies (sic: without accents), Vol. 1. From A-1 Video (199?) / Box 8808 / Michigan City, IN 46360. Available from Facets Video, 1517 W. Fulletron Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614; <http://www.facets.org>, 1-800-331-6197.
Excerpts include shots of an obese man put into semi-grotesque mechanisms to pound the kilograms off of him, for a very early cinematic representation of the superimposition of the mechanical upon the human. (RDE, 21/05/01)
