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The Bewitched Inn
The Bewitched Inn (French: L'auberge ensorcelée) is an 1897 French short silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 122–123 in its catalogs.
Plot.
A traveler, complete with riding boots and a pith helmet, arrives in a small hotel room. When he puts his luggage on the bed, it disappears immediately. Further magical confusions follow: when he sets down his helmet, it jumps to the floor and moves of its
A Terrible Night".
Méliès's 1903 film "The Inn Where No Man Rests" used a plot very similar to that of "The Bewitched Inn", but expanded it considerably. The motif of a candle-laden traveler also returned in another 1903 Méliès film, "The Apparition, or Mr. Jones' Comical Experience With a Ghost". The hotel guest theme reappeared again with further sophistication in Méliès's 1906 film "A Roadside Inn".
Production.
"The Bewitched Inn" was likely inspired