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FRANCE · 1908

A Tricky Painter’s Fate

Georges Méliès
European Art Cinema visual deception art and artifice trains surrealism trickery
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Synopsis

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.

Year1908
CountryFrance
DirectorGeorges Méliès
MovementEuropean Art Cinema
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