A Private Dinner

A Private Dinner (French: En cabinet particulier) was an 1897 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 127 in its catalogues.[1]

A Private Dinner
Directed by	Georges Méliès
Production company	Star Film Company
Release date	1897 (1897)
Country	France
Language	Silent

The film is one of a small group of risqué "mature subjects" (i.e. stag films) Méliès made around this time; others included Peeping Tom at the Seaside, A Hypnotist at Work, and After the Ball.[2] A Private Dinner is currently presumed lost.[1]

References

Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 338, ISBN 9782732437323
Rosen, Miriam (1987), "Méliès, Georges", in Wakeman, John (ed.), World Film Directors: Volume I, 1890–1945, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, pp. 747–65 (here 751), ISBN 0-8242-0757-2

External links

A Private Dinner on IMDb

Georges Méliès
Filmography Bibliography
Films 1896–1899	Actualities (1896–1900) Playing Cards (1896) Conjuring (1896) Watering the Flowers (1896) Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station (1896) The Rag-Picker (1896) Post No Bills (1896) The Rescue on the River (1896) A Terrible Night (1896) A Lightning Sketch (1896) Conjurer Making Ten Hats in Sixty Seconds (1896) A Serpentine Dance (1896) Miss de Vère (English Jig) (1896) The Vanishing Lady (1896) The Haunted Castle (1896) A Nightmare (1897) Comedian Paulus Singing (1897) A Funny Mahometan (1897) An Hallucinated Alchemist (1897) The Haunted Castle (1897) On the Roofs (1897) D. Devant, Conjurer (1897) Reconstructed actualities (1897–1902) The Last Cartridges (1897) The Surrender of Tournavos (1897) Sea Fighting in Greece (1897) Gugusse and the Automaton (1897) Between Calais and Dover (1897) The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (1897) The Barber and the Farmer (1897) The Bewitched Inn (1897) A Private Dinner (1897) After the Ball (1897) A Hypnotist at Work (1897) Dancing in a Harem (1897) A Novice at X-Rays (1898) Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine" (1898) The Magician (1898) The Famous Box Trick (1898) Pygmalion and Galatea (1898) Adventures of William Tell (1898) The Astronomer's Dream (1898) The Cave of the Demons (1898) The Four Troublesome Heads (1898) The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1898) A Dinner Under Difficulties (1899) Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb (1899) The Bridegroom's Dilemma (1899) An Up-to-Date Conjuror (1899) The Devil in a Convent (1899) The Pillar of Fire (1899) The Clown and Automobile (1899) A Mysterious Portrait (1899) Christ Walking on the Water (1899) The Dreyfus Affair (1899) Cinderella (1899) The Mysterious Knight (1899)
Films 1900–1905	Addition and Subtraction (1900) The Cook's Revenge (1900) The Misfortunes of an Explorer (1900) Paris Exposition, 1900 (1900) The One-Man Band (1900) Joan of Arc (1900) The Rajah's Dream (1900) The Two Blind Men (1900) Thanking the Audience (1900) The Christmas Dream (1900) Coppelia, the Animated Doll (1900) Fat and Lean Wrestling Match (1900) A Fantastical Meal (1900) Going to Bed Under Difficulties (1900) The Doctor and the Monkey (1900) China Versus Allied Powers (1900) The Brahmin and the Butterfly (1900–01) The Triple-Headed Lady (1900–01) Dislocation Extraordinary (1900–01) Red Riding Hood (1900–01) The Magician's Cavern (1901) Excelsior! (1901) The Sacred Fountain (1901) Blue Beard (1901) The Man with the Rubber Head (1901) The Eruption of Mount Pelee (1902) The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax" (1902) A Trip to the Moon (1902) The Shadow-Girl (1902) The Coronation of Edward VII (1902) The Treasures of Satan (1902) The Human Fly (1902) Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (1902) Robinson Crusoe (1902) The Marvellous Wreath (1902) Misfortune Never Comes Alone (1902–03) The Infernal Cake Walk (1903) The Mysterious Box (1903) The Enchanted Well (1903) The Inn Where No Man Rests (1903) The Drawing Lesson (1903) The Mystical Flame (1903) The Witch's Revenge (1903) The Oracle of Delphi (1903) A Spiritualistic Photographer (1903) The Melomaniac (1903) The Monster (1903) The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903) The Infernal Cauldron (1903) Jupiter's Thunderbolts (1903) Alcofrisbas, the Master Magician (1903) The Magic Lantern (1903) The Damnation of Faust (1903) A Moonlight Serenade (1903) A Wager Between Two Magicians, or Jealous of Myself (1904) The Untamable Whiskers (1904) A Miracle Under the Inquisition (1904) Faust and Marguerite (1904) Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer (1904) The Wonderful Living Fan (1904) The Cook in Trouble (1904) The Mermaid (1904) The Providence of the Waves (1904) The Barber of Seville (1904) The Wonderful Rose-Tree (1904) The Impossible Voyage (1904) The Christmas Angel (1904) The Living Playing Cards (1905) The Black Imp (1905) The Crystal Casket (1905) A Mesmerian Experiment (1905) The Palace of the Arabian Nights (1905) An Adventurous Automobile Trip (1905) The Mysterious Island (1905) Unexpected Fireworks (1905) Rip's Dream (1905) The Scheming Gambler's Paradise (1905) The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship (1905)
Films 1906–1912	A Mix-up in the Gallery (1906) The Chimney Sweep (1906) The Hilarious Posters (1906) A Desperate Crime (1906) Punch and Judy (1906) The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906) A Seaside Flirtation (1906) The Mysterious Retort (1906) The Witch (1906) Robert Macaire and Bertrand (1906) Under the Seas (1907) How Bridget's Lover Escaped (1907) Tunnelling the English Channel (1907) The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907) Hamlet (1907) Shakespeare Writing "Julius Caesar" (1907) Satan in Prison (1907) Delirium in a Studio (1907) The Good Luck of a "Souse" (1907) Humanity Through the Ages (1908) Why That Actor Was Late (1908) The Dream of an Opium Fiend (1908) Long Distance Wireless Photography (1908) A Fake Diamond Swindler (1908) The Miser (1908) Sideshow Wrestlers (1908) The Broken Violin (1908) A Love Tragedy in Spain (1908) Mishaps of the New York–Paris Race (1908) The Woes of Roller Skaters (1908) Love and Molasses (1908) The Mischances of a Photographer (1908) The Indian Sorcerer (1908) A Tricky Painter's Fate (1908) French Cops Learning English (1908) Fun With the Bridal Party (1908) Not Guilty (1908) Buncoed Stage Johnnie (1908) A Grandmother's Story (1908) Honeymoon in a Balloon (1908) Incident from Don Quixote (1908) Moitié de polka (1908) Fortune Favors the Brave (1908) Pharmaceutical Hallucinations (1908) The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess (1908) The Living Doll (1908) Seein' Things (1908) The Frozen Policeman (1908) The Doctor's Secret (1909) The Diabolic Tenant (1909) Whimsical Illusions (1909) The Spider and the Butterfly (1909) Baron Munchausen's Dream (1911) The Diabolical Church Window (1911) The Conquest of the Pole (1912) Cinderella or the Glass Slipper (1912) The Knight of the Snows (1912) The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family (1912)
Related	Georges Méliès in culture Le Grand Méliès (1952 documentary) The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007 book) Hugo (2011 film) Jehanne d'Alcy (wife) Gaston Méliès (brother)
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