IN 1896, GEORGES MÉLIÈS WAS THE MAN WHO FIRST BROUGHT MAGIC TO CINEMA.
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Writer, director, actor, magician, he was the first great storyteller of the moving image and the pioneer of special effects. 
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In 1937, a year before he died, he hand-wrote his autobiography in a 32-page document. He told the decades-long story of his central role in the creation of cinema and the subsequent fall which left him bankrupt and forgotten. 
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This is a first-hand account of the birth of cinema from its greatest innovator, an illuminating and eccentric testimony which has been out-of-print for many decades and never previously available in English. 
 
 
BOX SET INCLUDES:
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- DELUXE LINEN-BOUND HARDBACK EDITION BOOK WITH FOIL-STAMPED COVERS AND SPINE
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- ACTUAL-SIZE REPRODUCTION OF MÉLIÈS'S FULL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT
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- EXCLUSIVE MÉLIÈS PORTRAIT ART PRINT BY LEGENDARY CINEMA POSTER ARTIST GRAHAM HUMPHREYS
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- EXCLUSIVE WORLD-OF-MÉLIÈS ART PRINT BY RENOWNED ILLUSTRATOR/GRAPHIC DESIGNER NICK RHODES
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- HOLOGRAPHIC FOIL-STAMPED MÉLIÈS MOON ART PRINT
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- REAL 35mm FILM STRIP OF MÉLIÈS'S MOST FAMOUS SCENE
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- STAR FILM ENAMEL PIN
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- REPLICA OF ORIGINAL MÉLIÈS-SIGNED STAR FILMS SALES DOCKET
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- SIMULATED MÉLIÈS BUSINESS CARD
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- ALL PACKAGED IN A LARGE MÉLIÈS-BRANDED WOODEN KEEPSAKE BOX WITH BRASS FITTINGS (13 x 9 x 2.3 in)
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- NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 1896