The Laboratory of Mephistopheles

The Laboratory of Mephistopheles
Directed byGeorges Méliès
Based onThe Faust legend
Production
company
Release date
  • 1897 (1897)
Running time
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (French: Le Cabinet de Méphistophélès),[2] initially released in Britain and America as Laboratory of Mephistopheles[3] and also known as The Cabinet of Mephistopheles, The Devil's Laboratory,[4] Faust's Laboratory, and The Laboratory of Faust,[5] was an 1897 short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, loosely inspired by the Faust legend.[6]

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  4. ^ Harty, Kevin J. (1999), The Reel Middle Ages: American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Asian Films About Medieval Europe, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, p. 41
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  6. ^ Frayling, Christopher (2005), Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema, London: Reaktion, p. 49, ISBN 9781861898210