Tribulation or the Misfortunes of a Cobbler

Tribulation or the Misfortunes of a Cobbler is a 1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès.

Tribulation or the Misfortunes of a Cobbler
Directed byGeorges Méliès or Manuel
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  • 1908 (1908)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

Méliès himself appears in the film as the Roman, alongside two of his frequent collaborators: Fernande Albany as the merchant, and Manuel as the farrier. A 1981 guide to Méliès's work speculated that Manuel may have also directed the film, noting that it matches his usual staging style.[1] The film's special effects are created with stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution splices, multiple exposures, and dissolves.[1]

The film was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company, but no French release, French-language title, or catalogue number has been located for it.[2] The film has been known to scholarship since at least 1979, when John Frazer described it in a book on Méliès; however, Frazer misidentified it as a different Méliès film, The New Lord of the Village.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France, Bois d'Arcy: Service des archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie, 1981, pp. 307–308, ISBN 2903053073
  2. ^ Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 355, ISBN 9782732437323
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