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SPEAKER_00: Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica.Historically, women have been told to make themselves smaller, to diminish themselves.Some have used that idea to their advantage, disappearing into new identities.For others, a disappearance was the end to their stories, but the beginning of a new chapter.This month, we're telling the stories of these women.We're talking about disappearing acts. When you think of old movies, Hollywood might be the first place you think of.But before there was Hollywood, there was Paris.Today's Womanikin was one of the first female actresses in film history.She immortalized herself by committing her real-life disappearing act to celluloid, still astonishing audiences more than a century later.
Please welcome Jeanne Dalcy. Jeanne was actually born Charlotte Stéphanie Faisa in 1865.She later took on Jeanne as a stage name.Now, we don't know much about Jeanne's early life.What we do know is that she was born in Vaujour, France, just outside of Paris.Paris was a hub for entertainment and culture.At the time, onstage magic and illusions were all the rage.The Théâtre Robert Houdin had showcased many of those acts. But by 1888, the theater was facing financial ruin.It found a new owner in the illusionist, Georges Méliès.
Jeanne d'Alcy was then 23 years old.She moved to Paris and began working for Georges as a costume designer and production assistant.It wasn't long before she moved on stage as Georges' right-hand woman.And then a new invention unlocked another level of performance for the duo. That invention was the cinematograph, one of the earliest movie cameras.Georges got his hand on a similar projector, transformed it into a machine capable of filming, and was hooked.He founded a film company, built an indoor set, and began creating and experimenting with this brand-new medium, aided, of course, by his star performer, Jeanne. Picture this.The screen flickers to life, a richly decorated theater stage.Jeanne and Georges enter the picture.
Georges makes a big show of setting down a chair right in the middle of the set.Jeanne takes a seat in that chair.Georges covers her carefully with a veil, and then, voila, when Georges removes the veil, Jeanne is gone.Only an empty chair remains. It's like she disappeared into thin air.But wait, the show isn't over yet.Georges covers the chair once more, and when he removes the veil, now a skeleton sits where Jeanne once sat.It's horrifying and humorous all at once.A third and final time, Georges puts the veil over the seat.He shakes the cloth in anticipation, and voila!
Jeanne appears in the chair.She's returned, seemingly from the beyond. A magician never reveals their secrets, but just this once, I'll let you in on it.In front of live audiences, this trick worked thanks to a small trap door just below the stage.The vanishing lady would slip in during the first part of the stunt and sneak back out for the final reveal.But on film, an entirely new kind of trick was taking place. an edit.As long as George, the chair, and the veil stayed put, Jeanne could enter and leave the scene as many ways as she liked, thanks to the magic of a quick camera cut.Jeanne starred in more than a dozen of George's films.They dabbled in everything from horror to sci-fi, documentary, and even historical fiction.
Jeanne adapted to it all.And while it's believed that George made as many as 500 films, about 200 remain. Among the Missing Movies is one of the first ever horror movies.It was called Cleopatra's Tomb, and from written records, we know the basic plot.A man is excavating an Egyptian tomb.He finds a mummy.He chops up the mummy violently to reveal, or rather resurrect, the woman inside.Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, clad in all her finery.Cleopatra is, of course, played by Jeanne. Cleopatra has been portrayed in movies many times since, but Jean was likely the first.
In 2005, the movie was briefly believed to have been found in a trunk of missing films.But ultimately, the footage belonged to another of Georges' movies.Jean and Georges' movie portrayal seems to be lost to time, forever.Another one of the duo's disappearing acts. Offscreen, we know little about Jeanne's life.She and Georges were longtime lovers.They finally married in 1924, after both were widowed.They continued producing films in their Paris studio until the commercialization of the film industry and the onset of World War I shut down their experimental endeavors.Jeanne performed a final disappearing act, from the screen, and lived a seemingly quiet life afterwards. She died in France in October of 1956.
But while Jeanne has disappeared, her legacy lives on in cinema, including, notably, in Martin Scorsese's 2011 movie Hugo, which depicts Jeanne and George at the height of their creativity.It's a testament to their creative impact on modern filmmakers.All month, we're talking about disappearing acts.For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Womanica Podcast. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator.Talk to you tomorrow.
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