The X-Rays

Short description: 1897 British film by George Albert Smith

The X-Rays

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Directed by| George Albert Smith
Produced by| George Albert Smith
Starring| Tom Green
Laura Bayley
Cinematography| George Albert Smith

Production
company

G.A. Smith

Distributed by| Warwick Trading Company

Release date

* October 1897 (1897-10)

Running time

| 44 seconds
Country| United Kingdom
Language| Silent

The X-Rays (also known as The X-Ray Fiend[1]) is an 1897 British silent comic trick film directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a courting couple exposed to X-rays. The 44-second trick film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "contains one of the first British examples of special effects created by means of jump cuts"[2] Smith employs the jump-cut twice; first to transform his courting couple via "X rays," dramatized by means of the actors donning black bodysuits decorated with skeletons and with the woman holding only the metal support work of her umbrella, and then to return them and the umbrella to normal. The couple in question were played by Smith's wife Laura Bayley and Tom Green, a Brighton comedian.[2]

## References

1. ↑ "X-Rays". Progressive Silent Film List. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/X/XRays1897.html.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Brooke, Michael. "The X-Rays". BFI Screenonline Database. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1042311/. Retrieved 2011-04-24.

## External links

* The X-Ray Fiend on IMDb
* The X-Rays on YouTube

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