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The X-Ray Fiend

The X-Ray Fiend

5,4 /10 (64 Votes)
1897 EN 1 min

Overview

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.

Release date

01/10/1897

Votes

64

Popularity

0.8

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

1 min

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RottenPop

RottenPop

2017-02-21

⭐ 4

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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