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A Tricky Painter's Fate
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'A Tricky Painter's Fate', also known as 'A Railway Passenger's Ruse', is a 1908 French short silent film credited to Georges Mlis. The film features the actor Gallois as one of the train passengers. An analytical guide to Mlis's films, published by the Centre national de la cinmatographie, concludes from the film's style that it was directed not by Mlis himself but by his assistant, an actor known as Manuel.
The film was sold by Mlis's Star Film Company and is numbered 12661268 in its catalogues; the title 'A Tricky Painter's Fate' was used for the American market, and 'A Railway Passenger's Ruse' for the British one. The film is not known to have been sold at the time in Mlis's native France. The film had reached as far afield as New Zealand by December 1908, when it is reported to have played in a program of "novelties" at the Wellington Town Hall.
Film scholar Lucy Fischer, in a study of Ren Magritte's art, calls attention to the way 'A Tricky Painter's Fate' raises "questions of illusionism, and the muddle of real and fictional characters and spaces" in a way that recalls, and may have influenced, Magritte. The painter is known to have been a devotee of Mlis's work.
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