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Miss de Vère (English Jig)

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Miss de Vère
Elise de Vère
Directed byGeorges Méliès
StarringElise de Vère
Distributed byStar Film Company
Release date
  • 1896 (1896)
Running time
20 meters/65 feet[1]
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

Miss de Vère (English Jig) (French: Miss de Vère) was an 1896 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 45 in its catalogues.[1] The performer, the "Miss de Vère" of the title, is the dancer and actress Constance Elise de Vere.[2] She was, along with Clementine de Vere, a daughter of Charles de Vere (real name H. S. G. Williams), an Englishman who had worked as a professional magician and who was then the owner of a Paris shop selling conjuror's supplies, electrical equipment, and films.[3] Constance Elise de Vere,[4] known professionally as Elise de Vere, married Frank Joseph Godsol in Newark, NJ on December 8, 1917.[5]

Miss de Vère in a complete form is currently presumed lost, but a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around 1896–97, rediscovered in the mid-2010s in a private collection, appears to preserve a fragment of the film.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b Hammond, Paul (1974). Marvellous Méliès. London: Gordon Fraser. p. 135. ISBN 0900406380.
  2. ^ San Francisco Silent Film Festival (2020), "Flipbook 2 - La danse", Vimeo, retrieved 25 April 2020
  3. ^ Barnes, John (1992). Filming the Boer War. London: Bishopgate Press. p. 69. ISBN 1852190469.
  4. ^ Greene III, Charles (2022). Ionia - Magician Princess Secrets Unlocked (First ed.). Corporate Shuffle. ISBN 978-0-578-35372-2.
  5. ^ Greene III, Charles (2022). Ionia - Magician Princess Secrets Unlocked. Corporate Shuffle. ISBN 978-0-578-35372-2.
  6. ^ Lecointe, Thierry; Byrne, Robert (2019), "Léon Beaulieu's Pocket Cinematograph", silentfilm.org, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, retrieved 25 April 2020
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