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The X-Ray Fiend( 1897)

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A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.

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      Laura Bayley

      Woman

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      Tom Green

      Professor

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    A review by RottenPop

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    Written by RottenPop on Tue Feb 21 2017
    The X-Rays (aka. The X-Ray Fiend) is another film from George Albert Smith. Smith directed The Haunted Castle, a remake of a George Melies film, earlier that year. The X-Rays shows us a young woman that gets confronted by an adoring older man. The older man flirts and blushes. Then an X-Ray camera floats in, or is attached to some figure in black, and presumably turns the couple inside out. Then they return to normal when the camera leaves. Fin. That is the entire short from beginning to end. It has no purpose or thought, the camera head man doesn't seem to return in this form to any other ...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • skeleton
    • silent film
    • x rayed skeleton
    • x-ray
    • trick film