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The X-Ray Fiend

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A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.

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  • skeleton
  • silent film
  • x rayed skeleton
  • x-ray
  • trick film

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  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1 Oct 1897

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The X-Ray Fiend was released on 1 October 1897.

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    RottenPop

    2/21/2017

    4/10

    The X-Rays (aka. The X-Ray Fiend) is another film from George Albert Smith. Smith directed The Haunted Castle, a remake of a George Melies film, earlier that year. The X-Rays shows us a young woman that gets confronted by an adoring older man. The older man flirts and blushes. Then an X-Ray camera floats in, or is attached to some figure in black, and presumably turns the couple inside out. Then they return to norma…

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