The Kingdom of the Fairies

The Kingdom of the Fairies French Le Royaume des fes , initially released in the United States as Fairyland, or the Kingdom of the Fairies and in Great Britain as The Wonders of the Deep, or Kingdom of the Fairies, is a 1903 French silent film directed by Georges Mlis. The film is freely adapted from Biche au Bois, a popular stage pantomime that had originated at the Thtre de la Porte SaintMartin in 1845. Prints of the film survive in the film archives of the British Film Institute and the Library of Congress.

According to the Mlis scholar John Frazer, the film was the most ambitious Star Film production to date and was widely distributed and heavily promoted. An original film score was prepared for the films projection in larger cities. As with at leastof Mliss entire output including such films as A Trip to the Moon, The Impossible Voyage, The Rajahs Dream, and The Barber of Seville, some prints were individually handcolored and sold at a higher price.The Kingdom of the Fairies, like Mliss similarly spectacular films A Trip to the Moon 1902 and The Impossible Voyage 1904, was one of the most popular films of the first few years of the twentieth century. When Thomas L. Tally debuted the film at his Lyric Theater in Los Angeles in 1903 billing it as Better than A Trip to the Moon, the Los Angeles Times called the film an interesting exhibit of the limits to which moving picture making can be carried in the hands of experts equipped with time and money to carry out their devices. ........

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