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Friday, March 30, 2012
March Melies Madness! - Eight Girls in a Barrel [Le tonneau des danaïdes] (1900)
In Eight Girls in a Barrel (aka Le tonneau des danaïdes, aka The Dainaid's Barrel) Georges Méliès has fun with 8 women. And a barrel. The original French title references a Greek myth where forty-nine of the fifty daughters of King Danaus (i.e. the Danaids) were sentenced to fill bottomless barrels with water for all eternity as a punishment.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227668/
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