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René Clair (writer)
Release Date:
1927 (USA)
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A scientist's invisible ray freezes Paris into immobility. full summary | add synopsis
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Frozen Time
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Race Against Time
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Henri Rollan | ... | Albert |
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| Charles Martinelli | ... | The scientist ) (as Martinelli (I) |
| Louis Pré Fils | ||
| Albert Préjean | ... | The pilot |
| Madeleine Rodrigue | ... | Hesta, the airline passenger |
| Myla Seller | ... | The niece / daughter of the scientist |
| Antoine Stacquet | ... | The rich man (as Stacquet) |
| Marcel Vallée | ||
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At 3:25 (USA)
Le rayon de la mort (France) (alternative title)
Le rayon invisible (France) (working title)
Paris Asleep (International: English title)
The Crazy Ray (International: English title)
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Le rayon de la mort (France) (alternative title)
Le rayon invisible (France) (working title)
Paris Asleep (International: English title)
The Crazy Ray (International: English title)
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USA:18 min (DVD version) | USA:35 min
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This film is featured on the Criterion Collection DVD for Sous les toits de Paris (1930).
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Featured in "Fejezetek a film történetéböl: Az európai film kezdetei (#1.2)" (1989)
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One has to love these early shorts -- look at the freedom that existed to film more or less whatever subject crossed the artist's mind. And at the self-reference: in the narrative, the characters have the freedom to do more or less whatever crosses their minds. The film itself is the work of a 'mad scientist' about the experiment of the mad scientist within.
The construction is both simple and deeply abstract: we begin with a lone figure against the backdrop of Paris architecture, which grows increasingly populated by statuesque mimes, who are manipulated by animated mimes. The movie ends when the level of abstraction is removed.
Clearly what have here is a work that is conceived from start to finish as a visual story...something so influential that has survived the test of time, in ways that so many other 'experiments' did not. Modern borrowings from this are found in 'Devil's Advocate', 'Dark City', 'Abre Los Ojos/Vanilla Sky'...