The One Man Band

aka: L'homme Orchestre

Time: 2 min.

Year: 1900

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Synopsis: A conductor (Melies) arrives on a stage with seven chairs and sits on each of them. Every time he moves onto another chair he leaves a clone of himself. The conductor than begins conducting his band of clones to play a song until they disappear.

        To create the effect of cloning himself, Melies exposed the film seven times. This was probably the most anyone had used multiple exposure up to this time, for Melies was not the only one using these effects, but he was the only one using them consistently in a theatre style performance. The same usage of multiple exposure was used in Buster Keaton's The Playhouse twenty years later.

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