Directed by George Albert Smith Starring Tom GreenLaura Bayley Release date October 1897 (1897-10) Producer George Albert Smith | Produced by George Albert Smith Productioncompany G.A. Smith Director George Albert Smith Cinematography George Albert Smith | |
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Distributed by Warwick Trading Company Initial release October 1897 (United Kingdom) Similar Let Me Dream Again, The Miller and the Sweep, The Bewitched Inn, The Kiss in the Tunnel, Old Man Drinking a Glass of | ||
The X-Rays (also known as The X-Ray Fiend) is a 1897 British short silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a courting couple exposed to X-rays. The trick film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "contains one of the first British examples of special effects created by means of jump cuts" Smith employs the jump-cut twice; first to transform his courting couple via "X rays," dramatized by means of the actors donning black bodysuits decorated with skeletons, and then to return them to normal. The couple in question were played by Smith's wife Laura Bayley and Tom Green (a Brighton comedian).
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