Joan of Arc (1900 film)

Joan of Arc French Jeanne dArc is a 1900 French silent film directed by Georges Mlis, based on the life of Joan of Arc.

At the Siege of Compigne, Joan is taken prisoner while her army attempts to storm the castle. In prison, Joan has another dream in which she sees her visions again. Taken to the interrogation, Joan refuses to sign a retraction, and is condemned as a heretic. In the Rouen marketplace, Joan is burned at the stake. The wood carrier at the execution, bringing in fuel for the burning, dies on the spot from the fumes. In a final apotheosis scene, Joan rises to heaven, where she is greeted by God and the saints.The film was made in the spring of 1900. It was the first of Mliss films to surpass 200 meters in length, and the second after his Cinderella the previous year to use changes of scene, with twelve sets employed and that number of scenes, or tableaux, advertised. Cinderella was advertised as having twenty tableaux, but they were filmed on only six sets this division of long scenes into smaller segments for advertising purposes would become Mliss standard practice. Joan of Arc, by contrast, was advertised with twelve scenes, one per set. The artist Charles Claudel, who also repainted the interior of the Thtre RobertHoudin in 1901 following Mliss designs, was the set painter for the film. The cameraman was Leclerc, who also worked for Mlis as the pianist at the Thtre RobertHoudin. ........

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