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'''''La Clownesse fantôme''''', released in the United States as '''''The Shadow-Girl''''' and in the United Kingdom as '''''Twentieth Century Conjuring''''', is a 1902 French short silent film directed by [[Georges Méliès]].
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'''''La Clownesse fantôme''''', released in the United States as '''''The Shadow-Girl''''' and in the United Kingdom as '''''Twentieth Century Conjuring''''', is a 1902 French silent [[trick film]] directed by [[Georges Méliès]].


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
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== Survival ==
== Survival ==
The film was presumed [[Lost film|lost]] until the 1990s, when it was identified among a collection of early silent films rediscovered in Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 1993. This surviving fragment, about half the length of the complete film, premiered at the [[Pordenone Silent Film Festival]] in 1997.<ref name=Pordenone>{{citation|title=Clownesse fantôme, La|work=Giornate Database|publisher=[[Pordenone Silent Film Festival]]|year=1997|url=http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/ed_precedenti/screenings_recorden.php?ID=2961|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref>
The film was presumed [[Lost film|lost]] until the 1990s, when it was identified among a collection of early silent films rediscovered in [[Sulphur Springs, Texas]], in 1993. This surviving fragment, about half the length of the complete film, premiered at the [[Pordenone Silent Film Festival]] in 1997.<ref name=Pordenone>{{citation|title=Clownesse fantôme, La|work=Giornate Database|publisher=[[Pordenone Silent Film Festival]]|year=1997|url=http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/ed_precedenti/screenings_recorden.php?ID=2961|access-date=17 December 2017}}</ref>


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The Shadow-Girl (1902)

La Clownesse fantôme, released in the United States as The Shadow-Girl and in the United Kingdom as Twentieth Century Conjuring, is a 1902 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès.

Synopsis

Survival

The film was presumed lost until the 1990s, when it was identified among a collection of early silent films rediscovered in Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 1993. This surviving fragment, about half the length of the complete film, premiered at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 1997.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Clownesse fantôme, La", Giornate Database, Pordenone Silent Film Festival, 1997, retrieved 17 December 2017