Turn-of-the-Century Surgery

1900 | 2 minutes | 4.9 ★ (19)

Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
  • Overview

    George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch the night before an operation. In this clinic, a sign pleads “On est prie de ne pas crier/Please do not cry”, and the doctors set about the patient with saws, cheerily hacking off limbs, and then slopping them into a bucket, all the while arguing ferociously with each other. They then reattach arms and legs from a bucket of “exchange pieces” (using glue) before re-animating their victim, I mean patient, with bellows. (from http://silentlondon.co.uk/2015/01/23/10-disgusting-moments-in-silent-cinema/)

  • Release Date

    01 January 1900

  • DirectingAlice Guy-Blaché
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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