Pordenone, Italy — A special event at this year’s 31st Pordenone Silent Film Festival (Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto) featured, on October 6, a wonderful restoration (by the Cinémathèque Française and Laboratoires Éclaire) of a George Méliès 1902 film called “Les Adventures de Robinson Crusoé.” The festival screened the film with a live narration by British actor Paul McGann, who read an original script penned by Méliès that tells the story of Crusoé’s shipwreck, his meeting with cannibals and mutineers, his encounter and friendship with Friday, and his eventual rescue and return to England.
George Méliès
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