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The Conquest of the Pole (1912)

Name: The Conquest of the Pole
Genre: Science Fiction
Released: 1912
Duration: 30 min
Cast: Georges Méliès

191230 minScience Fiction✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

The Conquest of the Pole (1912) is a 30-minute science-fiction short film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by Georges Méliès.

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About The Conquest of the Pole (1912)

The Conquest of the Pole is a 1912 French silent science fantasy trick film directed by and starring Georges Méliès. The film, loosely inspired by contemporary events and by Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires, follows the comic misadventures of an international group of explorers on an expedition to the North Pole, where they encounter a man-eating frost giant and a dangerous magnetic needle.

Quick facts

Year: 1912
Runtime: 30 minutes
Type: Short film · Science Fiction
Sound: Silent film with a CC0 piano score

From the Wikipedia article on The Conquest of the Pole (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Credits

Directed by: Georges Méliès
Cast includes: Georges Méliès
Country: France
Based on: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

Credits from Wikidata · Wikipedia article

Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1912 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
License on source: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Melies silent.
Source: Internet Archive

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