This film was banned in France in 1899 because, during showings, it caused fights between pro and anti-Dreyfusards.
Méliès divided this film into 11 individual films of one scene each for exhibitors to select which ones they wanted to purchase.
A somewhat different version of this film figures prominently in Howard Waldrop's alternate-history story "Fin de Cycle," in which the film's creative team includes some of the most noted artists and writers of the day: composer Erik Satie, painter 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau', novelist Marcel Proust, and playwright Alfred Jarry, as well as the young Pablo Picasso.
Star Film 206 - 217.
Included in the "Georges Melies: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913)" DVD collection, released by Flicker Alley.
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