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    The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax" (French: Catastrophe du Ballon 'Le Pax') was a 1902 short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released...
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    Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão (category Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1902)
    at number 81 of the Avenue du Maine in Paris, commemorates the location of Augusto Severo accident. The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax" is a 1902 short...
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    Mount Pelee, The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax", and his most complex reconstruction, The Coronation of Edward VII. Not sold through the Star Films catalogues;...
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    The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax" and the most complex one of all, The Coronation of Edward VII. Stylistically, the film is reminiscent of the dioramas...
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    L'Ascension de la rosière, released in the United States as Honeymoon in a Balloon and in Britain as The Ascension of a Communicant, is a 1908 French short...
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  • A list of books and essays about Georges Méliès: Brakhage, Stan (1972). The Brakhage lectures: Georges Méliès, David Wark Griffith, Carl Theodore Dreyer...
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  • troublemakers pass by, see the drunkard, and hatch a plan. Breaking through the doors of the fireworks shop, they surround the drunkard with pyrotechnic...
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  • all the surviving original camera negatives of his films toward the end of his life, and about three-fifths of his output is presumed lost. The Human...
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  • does the same with two face cards, a queen and king, each of which comes to life and steps out of the card. The king chases the magician off the stage...
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    be hired. Going home, he tells the bad news to his wife. They pawn most of their possessions, and end up begging on the streets. There they happen to come...
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