Adventures of William Tell

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title: Adventures of William Tell
text: Adventures of William Tell is an 1898 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès, featuring a clown trying to shoot fruit off the head of a dummy which comes to life. The film is "a knockabout farce based on jump-cuts and the timely substitution of dummies for real bodies," with, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "a level of onscreen violence not previously seen in a surviving Méliès film," which marks, "a bridge between the onstage effects of the famous Théâtre du Grand
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description: 1898 French film
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_William_Tell
date created: 2011-06-09T23:42:41Z
date modified: 2024-08-27T11:39:59Z
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