Running time 67 seconds Production company Star Film Company | Release date 1896 (1896) Initial release 1896 Screenplay Georges Méliès Producer Georges Méliès | |
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Playing Cards (French: ''Une partie de cartes''), or Card Party, is an 1896 French short black-and-white silent film by Georges Méliès. It was the first film in Méliès' prolific career, and thus is number one in his Star Film catalogue. It is a remake of Louis Lumière's film The Messers. Lumière at Cards which was released earlier the same year. Along with Georges Méliès himself, his brother Gaston Méliès and daughter Georgette Méliès both appear in the film.
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Synopsis
The film depicts a typical afternoon scene in a French garden. Three men are sitting at a table, two of them playing cards while the third smokes and reads a newspaper. The man who is not playing cards calls over a young girl and has her fetch a woman with a bottle of wine. He proceeds to pour glasses for himself and his friends. After drinking the wine, the man reads a story out of the newspaper causing his friends to laugh. The film lasts roughly 67 seconds.
Importance
Une partie de cartes was made by monumental French director and film innovator, Georges Méliès. Aside from being important in that regard, this film is sometimes considered one of the first remakes ever made (being a remake of the Lumière film, The Messers. Lumière at Cards, made earlier that same year).