Georges Méliès: Le Diable géant ou Le Miracle de la Madonne (1902)
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http://www.brevestoriadelcinema.org/storia-del-cinema/02-il-cinema-delle-origini/02-2-melies-e-il-viaggio-sulla-luna/
"The Devil and the Statue" ("Le diable géant ou Le miracle de la madonne") is a variation on a theme established by "The Man with the Rubber Head" ("LHomme à la tête en caoutchouc"), in that once again the narrative is essentially an excuse for a living creature to appear to grow to gigantic size, by dint of superimposing a shot with the camera tracking in over a shot of a static room. (In this case, the joins are more obvious, and the floor on which the expanding and contracting devil is standing is all too visible).
"The Devil and the Statue" ("Le diable géant ou Le miracle de la madonne") is a variation on a theme established by "The Man with the Rubber Head" ("LHomme à la tête en caoutchouc"), in that once again the narrative is essentially an excuse for a living creature to appear to grow to gigantic size, by dint of superimposing a shot with the camera tracking in over a shot of a static room. (In this case, the joins are more obvious, and the floor on which the expanding and contracting devil is standing is all too visible).