Conquest of the North Pole (1912)

Director	Georges Méliès
Producer	Blackhawk Films
Contributors
Length	13 min
B&W/Color	b&w
UO Library Catalog description:
Call #	FILM Ma177
Genre	feature
Rare	no
Online	yes; YouTube
Copyright status	public domain
Physical condition	good
Oregon-related	no

Notes:

Written and directed by Georges Méliès, who made over 500 films between 1896-1913. He was an early pioneer of special effects using stop-motion, and he was also the first filmmaker to use techniques such as the fade-in, the fade-out, and the dissolve to create the first real narrative films. Conquest of the North Pole is based on the Jules Verne novel. This is a restored copy by Blackhawk Films of Davenport, IA; current owner of Blackhawk’s catalog calls it “a very much abridged version.”