page_title: The Mysterious Island (1905 film)
hierarchical_section_title: The Mysterious Island (1905 film)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: photo du film "L'Île de Calypso&#160;: Ulysse et le géant Polyphème" (Méliès, 1905)
context_page_description: The Mysterious Island, sometimes advertised with the subtitle Ulysse et le géant Polyphème, is a 1905 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 750–752 in its catalogues.
  Méliès plays Odysseus in the film, which is based on two completely separate scenes from the Odyssey, combining Calypso's island in the Ionian Sea with Polyphemus's cave near Mount Etna in Sicily. The film's special effects are worked with stage machinery, multiple exposures, substitution splices, and dissolves. Polyphemus's eye is puppeteered with two strings, while the giant arm is probably Méliès's own.
context_section_description: The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île de Calypso, literally "Calypso's Island"), sometimes advertised with the subtitle Ulysse et le géant Polyphème ("Odysseus and the Giant Polyphemus"), is a 1905 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 750–752 in its catalogues.
  Méliès plays Odysseus in the film, which is based on two completely separate scenes from the Odyssey, combining Calypso's island in the Ionian Sea with Polyphemus's cave near Mount Etna in Sicily. The film's special effects are worked with stage machinery, multiple exposures, substitution splices, and dissolves. Polyphemus's eye is puppeteered with two strings, while the giant arm is probably Méliès's own.
caption: A frame from the film
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