This late version of Melies' THE HAUNTED INN was the product of Segundo de Chomon and Camile de Morlhon -- with, I suspect, the stop-motion animation of Emile Cohl. A family tries to have a picnic, with distressing results; they retreat to a nearby house, where demons torment them, and they wind up doing acrobatic tumbles through windows.
It was a very popular type of movie in its time, but it had peaked some time a year or two earlier. Now films telling more traditional stories were coming strongly into favor, and if the camera magic that Melies and de Chomon had specialized in did not vanished, it changed. It became the techniques used to tell the details of a story, the grammar of film.
It was a very popular type of movie in its time, but it had peaked some time a year or two earlier. Now films telling more traditional stories were coming strongly into favor, and if the camera magic that Melies and de Chomon had specialized in did not vanished, it changed. It became the techniques used to tell the details of a story, the grammar of film.