The Untamable Whiskers

The Untamable Whiskers (French: Le Roi du maquillage, lit. 'The King of Makeup'), also known as The King of the Mackerel Fishers and Les Moustaches indomptables, is a 1904 silent film directed by and starring Georges Méliès.

The Untamable Whiskers
Directed byGeorges Méliès
StarringGeorges Méliès
Release date
  • 1904 (1904)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

Plot
Paper print of The Untamable Whiskers

Georges Méliès, after greeting the audience, makes rapid-fire sketches on a chalkboard and transforms magically into a succession of different characters.

Release

Unusually for Méliès's work, The Untamable Whiskers is framed entirely in a medium shot. The film testifies to Méliès's skill at quick drawing; he had already put this skill to use in the A Lightning Sketch series, now presumed lost. [1]

The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 552–553 in its catalogues. It was sold in the United States as The Untamable Whiskers and in Britain as The King of the Mackerel Fishers,[2] and is also known as Les Moustaches indomptables.[3] Film critic William B. Parrill, reviewing European silent films in the 2010s, considered the film to show Méliès "in fine form. His zest in his series of comic transformations is almost palpable."[4]

gollark: I do only have one free slot now, though.
gollark: I'd prefer to not catch too many.
gollark: AR(r)ing!
gollark: I kind of wanted it, actually, for the guardian farms.
gollark: ARing.

References
  1. Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France, Bois d'Arcy: Service des archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie, 1981, p. 180, ISBN 2903053073, OCLC 10506429
  2. Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 347, ISBN 9782732437323
  3. "Le Roi du maquillage (1904)", BFI.org, retrieved 3 June 2019
  4. Parrill, William B. (2011), European Silent Films on Video: A Critical Guide, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, p. 475


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