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While I was trying to compile lists for my previous post, I looked up François Périer, who played supernatural chauffeur Heurtebise*, and noticed he’d also played a burglar in a 1946 romantic-comedy-fantasy, Sylvie et le Fantome, in which Jacques Tati plays a ghost. I wish Youtube had a better copy than this fuzzy one with the sound out of synch, but what I’ve been able to see is rather charming. It was an interesting decision to play the ghost, Alain, without dialogue, but then he is Jacques Tati.
ETA – according to Wikipedia, the special effects in this movie weren’t double-exposure – they set up and filmed Pepper’s Ghost effects for all Tati’s scenes. :O
*Pretty sure Orphee is where Tim Burton got the idea for the running gag in Beetlejuice that suicides become civil servants in the afterlife.
ETA – according to Wikipedia, the special effects in this movie weren’t double-exposure – they set up and filmed Pepper’s Ghost effects for all Tati’s scenes. :O
*Pretty sure Orphee is where Tim Burton got the idea for the running gag in Beetlejuice that suicides become civil servants in the afterlife.
