The Conquest of the Pole (1912) Georges Méliès
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- The Conquest of the Pole ( À la conquête du Pole ) is a 1912 film made by • Georges Méliès
It was Méliès's last major film and the longest he made: 650 meters of film corresponding to 44 minutes of projection time. Méliès, who was already in precarious financial straits, had to enlist the help of Pathé to produce and distribute this colossal, which included, in addition to complex sets and myriad tricks, the enormous puppet of the Snow Giant (24:17), to move which required at least 12 men.
The story follows the same plot already used by Méliès in previous Fantastic Voyages: a group of wacky explorers set out to conquer the North Pole aboard
of the incredible aerobus designed by Professor Maboul (Georges Méliès). The adventure, which after a thousand perils, ends gloriously for the protagonists is told to us in 34 pictures:
Chapters
Titles 00:00
1 - The Congress (00:08)
2 - The Suffragettes plot (02:24)
3 - The Delegates (03:15)
4 - Maboul's Office (04:47)
5 - The Workshops (06:18)
6 - Departure announced (07:30)
7 - The launching runway (09:13)
8 - Delegates ready to go (10:33)
9 - The takeoff (10:52)
10 - By other vehicles 12:08)
11 - Assault on the hot air balloon (12:54)
12 - Precipitating (13:02)
13 - The first victims (13:15)
14 - En route (13:26)
15 - Departures by car (14:24)
16 - Train crash (14:42)
17 - The Masters of the Air (14:47)
18 - Maboul's Airbus (16:21)
19 - The constellations (16:43)
20 - Maboul engineer's airbus (17:42)
21 - Between the stars (18:08)
22 - Turbulence (18:56)
23 - Virgo and Scorpio (19:22)
24 - On board (20:51)
25 - The Storm (21:42)
26 - Safe travelers (21:26)
27 - The storm rages (21:42)
28 - The Landing (22:35)
29 - Arriving on the ice (23:30)
30 - The Snow Giant (24:17)
31 - The Magnetic North Pole (27:02)
32 - Glacial Apotheosis (29:02)
33 - Maboul, the hero (29:10)
34 - Maboul awarded by the Aero Club (29:23)
French historian Georges Sadoul describes À la conquête du Pole as Méliès's masterpiece, but a masterpiece completed too late, as if Giotto had finished his best work in the time of Michelangelo or Raphael. Certainly this film can be regarded as the summa of the art of the Magician of Montreuil, the film in which Méliès presents, in the most sophisticated and perfect manner, all his varied arsenal of tricks and artifices.
The Conquest of the Pole was released in France on May 3, 1912 to the almost total indifference of the public: trick films and fantastic journeys no longer interested him. Ten years separate this film from • Viaggio sulla Luna (19... , little or nothing seems to have changed in Méliès's cinema other than the means employed or his technical mastery, but if we compared this film with the contemporary Quo Vadis? , we would immediately get an idea of how far the history of cinema had come by leaving Méliès behind.
Notes to the present edition .
The colorization of this video was done digitally by iconauta.
The soundtrack was recomposed using popular classical music tracks found in the YT Audio Library.
Italian subtitles and captions were made by Piergiorgio Mariniello
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I am 52, and yet.... I still find this entertaining and interesting. 112 years ago, and yet they still did such a great work WITHOUT anything computer! I wonder if these people ever thought that 112 years later, others would see this and enjoy it?
As you see, many people are still watching and enjoing these old films
The silent films are just in another world . I enjoy how the actors express themselves with hand and arm gestures just beautiful
Here in rural France I dream of finding some of these breathtaking props in a barn, now lost and forgotten under three feet of straw. Or perhaps a backdrop used to line a wall.
I am sure a few of them must survive... I feel it in my bones. 🌝 🎥
I hope you'll find it!
For me it is clearly the second best movie of Méliès behind Le Voyage dans la Lune thanks for publishing it!
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Some film critics judge it to be Méliès' true masterpiece, but a masterpiece that should have been made 10 years earlier
24:30 that dancing 😂
Juste un mot , magnifique !!!
Extraordinary production, very ambitious and creative for the time. It, however, won the 'Gesticulation Extraordinaire' award that year.
We are so lucky to have this film in any language! It’s not that difficult to figure out what’s going on.
Notice the Aero-Bus sign at 1:48!!
Tres fregn !!!!
Hello, George
24:50これが映画における世界初の怪獣か！Is this the world's first monster in the movie！
First that we know of atleast
Mantap lucu kali
Is there an english version?
No, they are not there yet, but we have to. Thank you for reminding us
@@iconaus thank you, it would be very much appreciated
@@iconaus I made an English sub .srt file, if you want it.
No the person who posted this with an English title wasn't smart enough to put English subtitles.
just swap the auto translation captions to english and presto, its english. But it's a silent film, one can usually grasp whats going on without needing to read the cards.
Hello im go viet nam
13:00
Was NOT expecting that.
Helo Guys❤️💀
4:21 tremenda la scena della presentazione della delegazione … alla faccia degli stereotipi razzisti 😂😂😂
è vero, ma non è sempre corretto giudicare con il senno oggi le opere del passato che andrebbero considerati come fonti, documenti della storia per conoscere la società del tempo
Ma perchè una scelta di musiche tanto banali (perdonatemi ma sono davvero tutti brani usati allo sfinimento) quanto inadatti?
Peccato perchè il documento è a dir poco eccezionale, ma la consulenza musicale è davvero dilettantesca.
La scelta musicale l'ho fatto io prendendo brani classici dalla YT Audio Library. L'idea era proprio quella di far capire come funzionasse con la musica dal vivo: brani di repertorio adattati alla situazione. Qui ha il Can Can all'apparizione delle femministe, la Cavalcata delle Valchirie sul volo delle macchine... nessuno di questi brani è stato scelto a caso ed io, inverità, questo video l'ho messo tra i migliori tra quelli realizzati con la YT Audio Library
Why did you title this movie in ENGLISH if the subtitles are in Italian and French is being used in the actual film? Silly. Plus COMMERCIALS...5 minutes into the film? Done. This is a waste of time.
We will make english subtitles. We have the first in subtitling this movie in italuan and french. And you havevat least an englush description
The title is in french … UA-cam transletes