The Doctor's Secret

THE DOCTOR'S SECRET. Méliès, Georges|Georges Méliès, dir. 1900. Excerpted Marvelous Melies (sic: without accents), Vol. 1.  From A-1 Video (199?) / Box 8808 / Michigan City, IN 46360. Available from Facets Video, 1517 W. Fulletron Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614; , 1-800-331-6197.

Excerpts include shots of an obese man put into semi-grotesque mechanisms to pound the kilograms off of him, for a very early cinematic representation of the superimposition of the mechanical upon the human. (RDE, 21/05/01)