one of melies elaborate story production and rank with voyage to the moon and use camera trick and sleight of hand and elaborate costume and interesting model work . technically it will look primitive to the modern eye the set be clearly set and the model clearly model but it be all do with melies verve and dedication . certainly and the grotto and underwater set be beautiful while he know how to draw stonework . melies and i feel and remain the most accessible of the old director and in large part because of the sheer sense of showmanship and joy that be evident in these work . his scene and when they be not sleight of hand magic and be essentially tableaux and punctuate by acrobat . his tableau be much more elaborate than other director who use the form and provide a feast for the eye . work and a he do in this movie and with familiar image and he elaborate them and whereas in voyage to the moon and he invent them and suggest them . the effect be there be no other word for it magical .