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Sightseeing Through Whisky
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Wikipedia article
'Sightseeing Through Whisky' is a 1907 French short silent film credited to Georges Mlis. It was sold by Mlis's Star Film Company and is numbered 10001004 in its catalogues.
Plot
A large group of tourists, complete with guidebooks, pith helmets, and a tour guide, arrive at a rocky landscape dominated by a ruined temple. One of the tourists, tired from the sightseeing, lies down on a rock and goes to sleep. A drunken footman, carrying the sightseers' luggage, lags behind the group. As they move on, he sits down and starts drinking extensively from a bottle found among the luggage.
As the footman collapses in a drunken stupor, a figure in Ancient Grecian or Roman robes appears and demands the frightened footman's attention. The robed figure summons up various visions: women in classical drapery, posing in tableaux; an ancient festival with dancing Bacchantes; Dionysus himself, riding a donkey; a fountain of fire; and a final tableau of women, one of whom lies down near the footman.
The footman is showering her with kisses when his hallucination comes to a sudden end, and he realizes he is embracing the tired tourist. Incensed, she fights him off, and a group of the other tourists drag the drunken footman away.
Production
The film features two frequent collaborators of Mlis's: Fernande Albany as the tired tourist, and Manuel as the footman, who is identified in the film's French title as John. The special effects are created with substitution splices and pyrotechnics; the editing is not up to Mlis's usual standard, with the various transformations managed less fluidly than is typical for his films. A guide to Mlis's work, published by the Centre national de la cinmatographie, concluded that the film was probably supervised not by Mlis but by the actor Manuel.
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