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Cinderella or The Glass Slipper (1912)

Name: Cinderella or The Glass Slipper
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Released: 1912
Duration: 24 min

Directed by Georges Méliès

Drama, Fantasy · 24m

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.