The X-Rays
1897 film by George Albert Smith
- October 1897 (1897-10)
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The X-Rays (also known as The X-Ray Fiend[1]) is an 1897 British silent comic trick film directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a courting couple exposed to X-rays. The trick film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "contains one of the first British examples of special effects created by means of jump cuts"[2] Smith employs the jump-cut twice; first to transform his courting couple via "X rays," dramatized by means of the actors donning black bodysuits decorated with skeletons and with the woman holding only the metal support work of her umbrella, and then to return them and the umbrella to normal. The couple in question were played by Smith's wife Laura Bayley and Tom Green (a Brighton comedian).[2]
References
- ^ "X-Rays". silentera.com. Progressive Silent Film List.
- ^ a b Brooke, Michael. "The X-Rays". BFI Screenonline Database. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
External links
- The X-Ray Fiend at IMDb
- The X-Rays on YouTube
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Films directed by George Albert Smith
- The Haunted Castle (1897)
- Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer (1897)
- The X-Rays (1897)
- The Miller and the Sweep (1898)
- Photographing a Ghost (1898)
- Santa Claus (1898)
- The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)
- As Seen Through a Telescope (1900)
- Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)
- Grandma Threading her Needle (1900)
- Spiders on a Web (1900)
- The Old Maid's Valentine (1900)
- The House That Jack Built (1900)
- Let Me Dream Again (1900)
- The Inexhaustible Cab (1901)
- The Death of Poor Joe (1901)
- Mary Jane's Mishap (1903)
- The Sick Kitten (1903)
- Tartans of Scottish Clans (1906)
- Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs (1908)
- A Visit to the Seaside (1908)
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