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Chirurgie fin de sicle (1900)

Also known as Turn-of-the-Century Surgery

1900 · Silent film · 2 min · dir. Alice Guy-Blaché

  • Science Fiction
  • Horror
  • Comedy
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Synopsis

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch the night before an operation. In this clinic, a sign pleads “On est prie de ne pas crier/Please do not cry”, and the doctors set about the patient with saws, cheerily hacking off limbs, and then slopping them into a bucket, all the while arguing ferociously with each other. They then reattach arms…

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Director
Alice Guy-Blaché
Studio
L. Gaumont & Cie, Société des Etablissements Gaumont (FR)
Released
1900-01-01
Original title
Chirurgie fin de siècle
Running time
2 minutes

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