Louis Feuillade LES VAMPIRES Original photograph from the 1915 French #136474

Description

Les vampires (Original photograph from the 1915 French film serial)
Author:
Louis Feuillade (director, screenwriter); Musidora, Edouard Mathe, Marcel Levsque (starring)
Title:
Les vampires (Original photograph from the 1915 French film serial)
Publication:
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1915
Description:
Vintage double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1915 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. Shown here is Musidora as Irma Vep conferring with another member of The Vampires, an anarchist criminal gang at the center of the story.
The director's magnum opus, "Les vampires" is one of the great crime epics, nearly 7 hours in length, acknowledged as a strong influence on the surrealists, and by directors Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang in the development of the thriller, as well as the earliest masters of avant-garden cinema. The second of Feuillade's three film serial masterpieces, preceded by "Fantomas" (1913) and followed by "Judex" (1915), combining elements of both.
11 x 9 inches. Near Fine.
Hardy, The BFI Companion to Crime.
Seller ID:
136474
Subject:
1910s Cinema, European Cinema, Film Serial, Film Still Photographs, French Cinema, Mystery and Crime, Silent Film
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