A Funny Mahometan
| A Funny Mahometan | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Georges Méliès |
Production company | |
Release date | 1897 |
Running time | 20 meters |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
A Funny Mahometan (French: Le Musulman rigolo) was an 1897 short silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and numbered 94 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a scène comique.[1]
The film was shot outside in the garden of Méliès's property in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, with painted scenery. Méliès himself played the Muslim of the title.[1] A Funny Mahometan, with its presumably Algerian Muslim, is the first known film on an Algerian topic in cinema history.[2]
The film is currently presumed lost.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 91, ISBN 9782732437323
- ^ Eljerary, Abdallah Taher (1981), The Design of a Mass Media Training Program: The Formulation of a Paradigm for the Developing Nations with Particular Application to the Libyan Example (dissertation), University of Wisconsin–Madison, p. 115
External links[edit]
 | This article about a short silent comedy film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article related to a French film of the 1890s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Films directed by Georges Méliès
- 1897 films
- Lost French films
- French comedy short films
- French silent short films
- French black-and-white films
- 1897 comedy films
- 1890s lost films
- 1897 short films
- Silent French comedy films
- 1890s French films
- Films about Islam
- Short silent comedy film stubs
- 1890s French film stubs