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The Ballet-Master's Dream
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Wikipedia article
'Le Rve du matre de ballet', sold in the United States as 'The Ballet-Master's Dream' and in Britain as 'The Dream of the Ballet Master', is a 1903 French short silent film by Georges Mlis. It was sold by Mlis's Star Film Company and is numbered 525526 in its catalogues.
Mlis plays the ballet master; the American catalogue description credits Zizi Papillon as the eccentric dancer. Papillon was a stage performer featured at the Folies Bergre and at the Casino de Paris. The special effects are created using substitution splices, multiple exposures, and dissolves.
A paper print of the film survives at the Library of Congress.
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