The Miracle (1912)
December 21, 1912Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
![Ernst Lubitsch](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/40353-ernst-lubitsch.webp)
Ernst Lubitsch
Spielmann
![Maria Carmi](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/92812-maria-carmi.webp)
Maria Carmi
The Madonna
![Florence Winston](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Florence Winston
Megildis, the Nun
![Ernst Matray](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Ernst Matray
The Minstrel
![Douglas Payne](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Douglas Payne
The Knight
![Cherry Kearton](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Cherry Kearton
Director
![Ernst Benzinger](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Ernst Benzinger
The Robber Count
![Max Reinhardt](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/190870-max-reinhardt.webp)
Max Reinhardt
Story
![Joseph Klein](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/206731-joseph-klein.webp)
Joseph Klein
The King
![H. Jeapes](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
H. Jeapes
Cinematography
![H. Jeapes](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
H. Jeapes
Cinematography
![Michel Carré](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Michel Carré
Director
![Karl Vollmöller](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/604231-karl-vollmoller.webp)
Karl Vollmöller
Writer
![Engelbert Humperdinck](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/349796-engelbert-humperdinck.webp)
Engelbert Humperdinck
Composer
Details.
Release DateDecember 21, 1912
StatusReleased
Running Time30m
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
The Miracle (German: Das Mirakel, French: Le Miracle) is a 1912 British silent full-colour film, using a hand-coloured process similar to Pathéchrome. Produced by Joseph Menchen and directed by Michel Carré, it is among the first full-colour feature films to be made. It stars Maria Carmi, Ernst Matray, Florence Winston and Douglas Payne, and was filmed on location in Austria.
The Miracle was not intended to be shown as an ordinary film in the usual way but was designed by Menchen to be shown as part of a 'Lyricscope play'. This was an unusual (if not unprecedented) spectacular theatrical presentation which – in its most elaborate and complete expression – included: the projected colour film; a full-sized symphony orchestra and chorus performing Engelbert Humperdinck's score; live sound effects such as church bells and crowd noises; stage sets around the projection screen which changed during the performance; and live (non-speaking) actors and dancers in medieval costume. The various component parts of this ideal production varied somewhat according to local conditions.
This 1912 multi-media production was an adaptation of Max Reinhardt's wordless spectacular stage production of Karl Vollmoeller's play of the same name, which had played to huge audiences at the London Olympia exhibition hall in 1911–1912. As some contemporary critics realised, The Miracle was not a "moving picture drama" in the normal sense of the word, but a "filmed pantomime," a celluloid record of the action of the stage production in a unique presentation.
The world première of the full-colour 'Lyricscope play' of The Miracle took place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, on 21 December 1912 and it was shown all over the country until Easter 1913, breaking many records for attendance. The colour film with its attendant show subsequently made its way around the world, being shown in the U.S., Australia and Germany.
A rival, unauthorised version (Das Mirakel) directed by Mime Misu for Continental-Kunstfilm in Germany appeared in the same year with the same subject and English title ("The Miracle") and was the subject of various copyright legal actions in the UK and the United States, resulting in seven different titles shared between the two films.
Although various claims have been made that Cherry Kearton and Ernst Lubitsch were somehow involved with this production, such claims are wholly without foundation.
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