The Broken Violin (1908)

3m
Running Time

May 23, 1908
Release Date

The Broken Violin (1908)

3m
Running Time

May 23, 1908
Release Date

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Plot.

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment. Hopefully one day a complete print will turn up but until then at least we have this. The film starts off in some sort of bakery as the boss starts giving orders and then a bit later we see a young man pull out a violin he has been hiding and start to play it. The film then flashes to another location but this is where it cuts off so I'm not certain where the story went from here.

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Release Date
May 23, 1908

Original Name
Lully ou le violon brisé

Status
Released

Running Time
3m

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Wiki.

The Broken Violin (French: Lully ou le Violon brisé) was a 1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1176–1185 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as "très artistique; spécial pour coloris; anecdote Louis XIV en 4 tableaux, avec ballet" ("very artistic; filmed specifically for hand-coloring; an anecdote from the reign of Louis XIV in four scenes, with a ballet"). Only a fragment of the film is known to survive; the rest is presumed lost.At least some of the film was shot outdoors, in the garden of the Méliès family property in Montreuil-sous-Bois. From an analysis of the surviving fragment, a guide to Méliès's films from the Centre national de la cinématographie concludes that the film was probably not directed by Méliès himself but by his employee, an actor known as Manuel.The fragment shows a scene in a kitchen, where an assistant cook, the young Jean-Baptiste Lully, is berated for his tardiness. When alone, young Lully begins playing his violin, and the whole kitchen staff soon gather around him in delight at his playing. The joyful group is interrupted by a man in elaborate livery, who scolds Lully and sends him away. Another scene, of an elaborate room in Baroque style with a maidservant and an elegantly dressed lady, is briefly glimpsed at the end of the fragment.

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