Sinopse
A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.
- 5.5
- 1897
- Released
- 0h 1m
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Keywords
- #skeleton
- #silent film
- #x rayed skeleton
- #x-ray
- #trick film
Reviews
@SteveMcQueen36almost 9 years ago
The X-Rays (aka. The X-Ray Fiend) is another film from George Albert Smith. Smith directed The Haunted Castle, a remake of a George Melies film, earlier that year. The X-Rays shows us a young woman that gets confronted by an adoring older man. The older man flirts and blushes. Then an X-Ray camera floats in, or is attached to some figure in black, and presumably turns the couple inside out. Then