Here we see a crew of people building the set for Georges Méliès. This gives an idea to its size and to the all the time and dedication it took to make his films. This studio is particularly important because it is the first of its kind. He had an ingenious idea to include walls of glass like a greenhouse in order to let in enough light from the outside. Looking at the films of Méliès it's easy now to overlook all the work that went into them and how ahead they were for the time. However, for the time these films were truly extraordinary. It should also be noted that while Georges Méliès takes credit for the films that anything of that kind of magnitude takes more than one person. His vision needed many other people to help create it and make it a reality, such as the people shown here in this photograph. This tendency to attribute the entire success of something to one person happens often in film, but it is truly a collaborative process. It is also interesting to reflect on the hours of labor that go into making such a short film a reality. There is so much invisible labor for a few minutes of reward. To undergo this process, one must truly love the medium.
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