GamerTab That was an excellent one.

BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

ofpsmith This is the shortest film I've reviewed. It's also the second one I've reviewed that was directed by Georges Melies. It's very interesting seeing as how Melies makes clones of himself and considers that the band. I would have given it 7 stars but I gave it 6 because It's a silent film. Now don't get me wrong I still love silent films but I wouldn't be focusing on this silent film aspect if the movies title didn't have the word band in it. You know there is a band, and that it's simply a bunch of clones. But we can't even hear what it's playing. It does however manage to be pretty interesting. Overall it's fairly good. But it's got flaws.

wes-connors French magician and filmmaker Georges Melies has seven chairs lined up across your movie screen. He appears dressed as a musician and takes a seat, then a super-imposed Mr. Melies rises, with cymbals, from the first sitting Melies and sits in the second seat. From the second seat, a drumming Melies moves on to the next seat. This goes on until all seven seats are filled with different members of an instrumental orchestra. Melies plays each part. They perform enthusiastically for the audience and meld back into the original Melies. He is a one man band!****** L'homme orchestre (1900) Georges Melies ~ Georges Melies

Snow Leopard This is one of the earlier displays of the wit and camera wizardry of movie pioneer Georges Méliès. The idea is a simple one, but by no means an easy one to carry off using the resources of the time. Méliès also adds a few interesting details to the high-quality camera tricks.The same idea was used later on by other silent screen comedians, most notably by Buster Keaton in his wonderful feature, "The Playhouse". This much earlier movie is quite a bit simpler, but considering its era it is almost as impressive. Méliès plays a band-leader and each member of the band, using multiple exposures and other carefully crafted special effects to create an amusing scene.As Méliès gained even more experience, his features often added lavishly detailed settings to the fine visual effects. This 1900 movie relies mostly on the central idea, without too much background detail, but his technique is already excellent, and this is one of many entertaining Méliès features that demonstrate his considerable creativity and skill.

Ben Parker Georges Melies was the founder of special effects in movies. Its really quite wonderful watching these little shorts: imagine you had the opportunity to realise for the first time the things that were possible with filmed images. By filming a scene, then removing or moving one element and filming it again and editing the two shots together you can make things disappear or jump from one side of the room to the other. This is true magic, and watching Melies discover these things is a special thing i'm glad i've had the opportunity to see.Aside from this value, the shorts still retain their immense fun for audiences an entire century after their creation. Now THAT is called staying power.In this short, Melies clones himself six times to fill six seats of an orchestra, then makes the seats disappear, then reappear, then makes himself disappear in a cloud of smoke. The music, i believe is Robert Israel, a great modern composer who's been doing us the honour of writing scores for many great silent movies, which adds immeasurably to our enjoyment of them.