Thanking the Audience

Thanking the Audience (French: Vue de remerciements au Public) is a 1900 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 292 in its catalogues.^[1]

The film was designed to be projected at the end of a showing of short films.^[2] It depicted seven international figures—"a Frenchman, English soldier, German, Spaniard, Italian lady, Russian, and Turkish lady"—transforming into each other, each displaying the words "Thanks, hope to see you again" in a different language.^[3]

Thanking the Audience is currently presumed lost.^[1]

1. ^ ^{a b c} Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 342, ISBN 9782732437323
2. ^ Ezra, Elizabeth (2000), Georges Méliès, Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 147, ISBN 0719053951
3. ^ Hammond, Paul (1974), Marvellous Méliès, London: Gordon Fraser, p. 44, ISBN 0-900406-38-0

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