The Giddy Blog Posted by chrisgiddens on May 31, 2012

Often misidentified as the 1898 Méliès film, The Damnation of Faust, which is presumed lost. Faust in Hell is instead a 15-scene epic that introduces some excellent new tricks, such as the descent beginning at the 4:48 mark. The scenes as described in the Melies catalog are as follows: 1....   read more

The Giddy Blog Posted by chrisgiddens on April 23, 2012

The story of Faust, popularized in 1604 by Christopher Marlowe’s play, “Doctor Faustus”, reworked by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the 1800s, and then compressed here to 2 minutes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000437/ Share this:FacebookTwitterPinterestTumblrRedditStumbleUpon   read more