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August 1899: Méliès' Tricky Location
While filming Débarquement de voyageurs, port de Granville in August, Georges Méliès took additional film of the ocean waves surging into Granville. Many contemporaneous filmmakers would have simply released this film in its natural state as a pleasant scenic view, but Méliès had more sophisticated ideas. Back at his studio in Montreuil, he filmed an actor dressed as Christ and superimposed the image onto the film he had taken of the waves. The resulting film was entitled le Christ marchant sur les flots (Christ Walking over Water) and was described in the Star Film Catalogue as follows: Showing the rolling sea, upon which gradually appears a cloud of mist. From this evolves the figure of Christ, who proceeds to walk on the waves. The rolling movement of the water and the sudden apparition certainly give a most startling effect, illustrating the biblical miracle of Christ walking on the water. [ADD]
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