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MarieGeorgesJean Mlis, known as Georges Mlis , was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Mlis was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, timelapse photography, dissolves, and handpainted color. His films include A Trip to the Moon and The Impossible Voyage , both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy.

MarieGeorgesJean Mlis was bornDecember 1861 in Paris to JeanLouisStanislas Mlis and his Dutch wife, JohannahCatherine Schuering. His father had moved to Paris in 1843 as a journeyman shoemaker and began working at a boot factory, where he met Mlis mother. JohannahCatherines father had been the official bootmaker of the Dutch court before a fire ruined his business. She helped to educate JeanLouisStanislas. Eventually the two married, founded a highquality boot factory on the Boulevard SaintMartin, and had sons Henri and Gaston by the time of third son Georges birth, the family had become wealthy.

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