The Hallucinated Alchemist (1897)
An Hallucinated Alchemist (French: L’hallucination de l’alchimiste), also known as The Alchemist’s Hallucination, was an 1897 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliés. This film is lost. The videos online are not this film, but actually The Mysterious Retort (1906).
Plot
The film features a star with five female heads and a giant face that has people coming out of its mouth.
Release
The film was released by Méliès’s Star Film Company and is numbered 95 in its catalogs. The film is currently presumed lost.
The 1900 Edison Manufacturing Company short The Clown and the Alchemist, directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith, may have been inspired by this film.
aka An Hallucinated Alchemist
George Melies
Star Film Company
Georges Méliès
1897
2 Minutes
France
Silent
Silent Film, Magic, Lost Film
