The Tower of London
Directed byGeorges Méliès
StarringMarguerite Thévenard
Production
company
Release date
  • 1905 (1905)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

The Tower of London (French: Le Tour de Londres ou les Derniers Moments d'Anne de Boleyn) was a 1905 French short silent film by Georges Méliès.[1]

Plot

Anne Boleyn is locked in Beauchamp Tower in the Tower of London. Falling asleep, she dreams of her past days as Queen of England; then, the vision shifting, she dreams herself condemned to death, and executed in the Tower courtyard. When she awakes, she is indeed sentenced to death, and led out to the scaffold.[2]

Production and release

The film, featuring Marguerite Thévenard as Anne Boleyn, was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 732–737 in its catalogues.[3] Méliès's 1908 American catalogue gives the film the subtitle "The Death of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England," and describes it as a "Dramatic Composition in 5 Scenes."[2]

The Tower of London is currently presumed lost.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 349, ISBN 9782732437323
  2. 1 2 Méliès, Georges (1908), Complete Catalogue of Genuine and Original "Star" Films, New York: Geo. Méliès, pp. 81–82
  3. ↑ Malthête & Mannoni 2008, p. 186
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