What are the characteristics of George Meria's films?

George Meria's films have the characteristics of expressive aesthetics. In addition, he also used "magic photography" to create a series of stunts, such as slow motion, fast motion, reverse shooting, multiple exposures, overlapping and so on. In Cinderella, he used slow-motion photography to make the little fairy dance fly in the air. He also filmed underwater scenes through a glass fish tank for the first time.

Mei was a person who creatively used various film expression techniques at that time. He shot a large number of short films, both fairyland-like scenes and frightening scenes. Therefore, he is called the magic master.

Role contribution:

In the famous Dreyfus incident (1899), he directed with meticulous realism, imitated some photos, and made the actors perform in real time in the style of newsreels, making a long drama of 15 minutes. Among them, there are big close-ups and shots of actors, and there are also scenes where people are scattered, which creates a precedent for the art of "moving the real thing".

Although May Lea's Monterey Studio is a few years later than Edison's Black Maria, it is larger in scale, more exquisite in design, and has a film studio and factory-style operation.

The top of Monterey's studio is full of glass, so that natural light can be fully utilized and artificial light sources can be minimized when shooting, and the intensity of light can be adjusted through curtains. Mei Li 'ai also personally designed a set of complicated mechanical devices, which can shoot those complicated scheduling scenes at any time.