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'The Spider and the Butterfly' is a 1909 French silent film directed by Georges Mlis.
Production
Mlis plays the magician in the film.
Release and survival
'The Spider and the Butterfly' was released by Mlis's Star Film Company, and is numbered 15301533 in its catalogues.
The end of Mlis's filmmaking career was marked by mounting financial difficulties, forcing him eventually to close his studio. In 1923, Mlis discarded his collection of negative and positive prints for his films. After living forgotten and in poverty for some years, Mlis was rediscovered by film devotes in the late 1920s. On 16 December 1929, a "Gala Mlis" was held at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, reintroducing Mlis and his work to posterity.[
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The Gala Mlis included projection of eight Mlis films that had managed to be recovered,[ including 'The Spider and the Butterfly' (the others were 'Whimsical Illusions', 'The Diabolic Tenant', 'The Wandering Jew', 'A Trip to the Moon', 'Baron Munchausen's Dream', 'The Merry Frolics of Satan', and 'The Conquest of the Pole').][ After the Gala, the print of 'The Spider and the Butterfly' went missing once again;][ it was presumed lost as of 2008.][ A fragment of the film was rediscovered in time to be included in a 2010 DVD collection of some of Mlis's films.]
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