In 2010, the Cinémathèque Basque received a donation of a box of 35mm films, recovered by a private individual in 1995 from a garbage bin in Bilbao. The box was found to contain 32 films, including hand-colored prints of The Devil in a Convent, and another 1899 Méliès film, The Mysterious Knight. Previously, these two films had only been available in black-and-white copies. The hand-colored print of The Devil in a Convent was judged to be in too advanced a state of decomposition to be restored completely, however, the third scene of the film was in good enough condition to be restored. Both films were entrusted to the Filmoteca de Catalunya for restoration, under the supervision of two Méliès scholars, Roland Cosandey and Jacques Malthête. (Source: Wikipedia; Quévrain, Anne-Marie (October 2014), "Deux films en couleurs de Georges Méliès retrouvés en Espagne!")
This was likely the first Méliès film to use dissolves as a transition effect, and thus one of the first films overall to do so.
Star Film 185 - 187.
Included in the "Georges Melies: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913)" DVD collection, released by Flicker Alley.
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By what name was The Sign of the Cross (1899) officially released in Canada in English?
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