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La Folie du Docteur Tube

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La Folie du docteur Tube
Directed byAbel Gance
Written byAbel Gance
Produced byLouis Nalpas
StarringSéverin-Mars
Albert Dieudonné
CinematographyLéonce-Henri Burel
Release date
  • 1915 (1915)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesSilent
French intertitles

La Folie du docteur Tube is a 1915 short silent experimental film directed by Abel Gance, in which a scientist takes a white powder which makes him hallucinate. Gance shows the man's hallucinations by using a series of distorting lenses on the camera.[1] A copy of the film is preserved at the Cinémathèque française and has been digitised.[2]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Shepard, Richard F. "New York Times: La Folie du Docteur Tube". NY Times. Retrieved 20 July 2008.
  2. ^ Film description at Cinémathèque française [archived]. Retrieved 2 June 2020.