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| Tango01 | 15 Nov 2014 12:00 p.m. PST |
"Georges Méliès once again treats the viewer to the fever dreams of scientific pioneers in 1907's Inventor Crazybrains and his Wonderful Airship. In this number, a wistful, would-be inventor falls asleep amidst his plans, blueprints, and chalk drawings for a dirigible airship when sleep overtakes him. Fairies and sprites cavort as they infiltrate his mind to fill his sleeping moments with images of his airship taken flight. Méliès' heavens are as lovely as always, with visions of stars as lovely maidens pass by the ship. Only an errant comet or firework ends the somnambulistic flight, stirring the inventor from his slumbers and putting him in a frenzy of destruction around his humble flat. By itself, Inventor Crazybrains is short and cute. In context it becomes a little melancholy. 1907 was nearing the end of Méliès' filmmaking career, and not long thereafter, in a fit of depression, he would destroy many of his own works. Perhaps we see something of a self-fulfilling prophecy in this film, as a man with wonderful visions of fantasy realms despairingly ends his own career? …"
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