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The Mysterious Island (1905 film)
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'The Mysterious Island' (, literally "Calypso's Island"), sometimes advertised with the subtitle 'Ulysse et le gant Polyphme' ("Odysseus and the Giant Polyphemus"), is a 1905 French short silent film by Georges Mlis. It was sold by Mlis's Star Film Company and is numbered 750752 in its catalogues. The film is four minutes long.
Mlis plays Odysseus in the film, which is based on two completely separate scenes from the 'Odyssey', combining Ogygia, Calypso's island in the Ionian Sea, with Polyphemus's cave near Mount Etna in Sicily. The film's special effects are worked with stage machinery, multiple exposures, substitution splices, and dissolves. Polyphemus's eye is puppeteered with two strings, while the giant arm is probably Mlis's own.
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