Méliès rose to prominence creating "trick films" and became well known for his innovative use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted…
It was numbered 1548–1556 for the catalogues of Méliès's Star Film Company, [1 ] but it was ultimately produced and distributed by Pathé Frères, [2 ] who advertised it as with the subtitle magie vénitienne (Venetian magic). [1 ]
Méliès was established as a magician with his own theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, when he attended the celebrated first public demonstration of the Lumière Brothers' Kinetoscope in December 1895.