| [Roi Midas]Also known as [King Midas]
 (1908) France
 B&W : Short film
 Directed by (unknown)
 Cast: (unknown) Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont production; distributed by [?] Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont? / [?] 35mm spherical format? / An early example of combined hand-coloring, with color-tinting and color-toning. [?] Possibly released in the USA as The Legend of King Midas (1910) (at 654 feet) by Kleine Optical Company on 26 February 1910; in a split-reel with Blue Fishing Nets (1910). [?] The film was acquired from the Josef Joye film collection in Zürich, Switzerland, and is the source of the above tentative title. [?] Drama? Survival status: Print exists in the Archivio Davide Turconi film archive [incomplete]. Current rights holder: (unknown) Listing updated: 31 October 2010. References: Image-34-1-2 pp. 33, 38 : Website-AFI. |