Jack and Jim (film)

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Jack and Jim
Directed byGeorges Méliès
StarringGeorges Méliès
Production
company
Release date
  • 1903 (1903)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

Jack et Jim, sold in the United States as Jack and Jim and in Britain as Comical Conjuring, is a 1903 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 517–519 in its catalogues.[1]

Méliès plays the juggler in the film, which uses substitution splices and gunfire for its special effects.[2]

Cast[edit]

  • Jules-Eugène Legris as Jim
  • Georges Méliès

References[edit]

  1. ^ Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 346, ISBN 9782732437323
  2. ^ 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. 162–63, ISBN 2903053073

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