The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family

The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family
The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family (1913) by Georges Méliès
Directed by	Georges Méliès
Produced by	Charles Pathé
Release date	Completed 1912; may have been released 1913; certainly released 2008
Running time	405 meters[1]
Country	France
Language	Silent

Le Voyage de la famille Bourrichon (known in English as The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family[2] or The Voyage of the Family Bourrichon[3]) is a 1912 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès,[1] based on a music-hall comedy by Eugène Labiche.[4] It is a comedy in the style of Max Linder,[3] and is notable for being Méliès's last film.[4]

Like all of Méliès's 1911–1912 films, The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family was made under the supervision of Charles Pathé and was planned for release by the Pathé Frères studio.[3] The film was probably completed by Méliès at the end of 1912 (or possibly the beginning of 1913),[5] and was advertised as an upcoming release in the French Ciné-Journal in May 1913.[5] Some accounts claim that Pathé did not actually ever release it.[3]

The film was presumed lost as late as 2000,[6] but was rediscovered in time to be included on a 2008 DVD collection of Méliès's films.[2]

References

1. Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 356, ISBN 9782732437323
2. Méliès, Georges (2008), Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (DVD; short film collection), Los Angeles: Flicker Alley, ISBN 978-1893967359
3. Frazer, John (1979), Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., pp. 52–53, ISBN 0-8161-8368-6
4. Hammond, Paul (1974), Marvellous Méliès, London: Gordon Fraser, p. 80, ISBN 0-900406-38-0
5. Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 29
6. Ezra, Elizabeth (2000), Georges Méliès, Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 159, ISBN 0-7190-5395-1

External links

• The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family at IMDb