[Roi Midas]
Also known as [King Midas]
(1908) France
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont production; distributed by [?] Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont? / [?] 35mm spherical format? / An early example of combined hand-coloring, with color-tinting and color-toning. [?] Possibly released in the USA as The Legend of King Midas (1910) (at 654 feet) by Kleine Optical Company on 26 February 1910; in a split-reel with Blue Fishing Nets (1910). [?] The film was acquired from the Josef Joye film collection in Zürich, Switzerland, and is the source of the above tentative title.
[?] Drama?
Survival status: Print exists in the Archivio Davide Turconi film archive [incomplete].
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Listing updated: 31 October 2010.
References: Image-34-1-2 pp. 33, 38 : Website-AFI.
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