Cinderella or The Glass Slipper

Cinderella or The Glass Slipper

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 1, 1912

Runtime

0h 24m

Genres

Drama, Fantasy

User Score

55%

Original Title

Cendrillon ou La pantoufle merveilleuse

Production Companies

Star Film

Director

Georges Méliès

Description

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance of a narrative; additionally, the use of dissolves as transitions in it influenced other filmmakers for years to do the same. Méliès was the cinema world's preeminent leader then. By 1912, however, that was no longer the case; frankly, as evidenced by this feature, his style had become dated. Moreover, Méliès had begun to adopt techniques from other filmmakers, such as direct cuts instead of dissolves, and there's even a match on action shot during the slipper trying-on scene.