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01/10/1897 Comedy, Horror 0h 1m
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Overview

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.

  1. George Albert Smith

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Laura Bayley

    Woman

  2. Tom Green

    Professor

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A review by RottenPop
Written by RottenPop on 2017-02-21
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 normal when the camera leaves. Fin.

That is the entire short from beginning to end. It has no purpose or thought, the camera head man doesn't seem to return in this form to any other...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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