Filmikunsti ajalugu
became the victim of that. More and more people who produced films, where was more
money involved. He sold his studio to a big industry. He stopped filmmaking. Lived last 20
lives in total misery, cinema had moved on and melies was more than a sidenote. People at the
end of his life organised a retrospective.
Wanted to shoot actuality but was interested in illusion. It is fundament that hollywood is built
on. Hollywood is selling illusions. Cinema can become the theater, magicshow.
Melies the first ,,auteur". Film is not like in hollywood, but the maker is an author. The
keygenius to make it all happen-,,auteur". Demonstrated that feature film production can be
the work of a single creative mind(not industry)
Melies: wrote the scripts, controlled every aspect, in front of and behing the camera, hired the
actors, took care of shooting, develping and editing of the film.
The father of indipendent film .
annaabi.ee 
