while an enormously influential pioneer on the field of special effect and french director george méliès be oddly not that interested in make color film in his career . the reason behind this apparent lack of interest be probably relate to how costly and laborious be the process of hand color frame by frame and a while his first hand color movie be do in 1897 ( lhallucination de lalchimiste ) and he wouldn not attempt to make another one until 1903 and when the hand color movie do by edison studio become to be as popular a his film . that year and right after the enormous success of his masterpiece and le voyage dans la lune ( a trip to the moon ) and méliès direct 3 short that he color himself represent la guirlande merveilleuse and le cake walk infernal and le chaudron infernal . of the three and le chaudron infernal ( or the infernal cauldron ) be the most well know and mainly because this film follow méliès interest in the horror genre . le chaudron infernal ( also know a the infernal boiling pot by some source ) be a movie about an evil green skin demon ( george méliès and of course ) and who work a an executioner in hell . another demon in charge of bring him the condemn and begin his work by send a woman to the executioner and who joyfully tie her and throw her into the big cauldron he have in his room . his assistant bring him another two condemn and this time two male courtier and who follow the woman to her fate inside the boiling pot . a the body enter the cauldron the infernal flame grow big and reach an enormous size . after put the three inside the cauldron and the demon stir up the remains and suddenly the smoke that come from the cauldron begin to form image that resemble the body of the condemn . realize that this be the soul try to escape and the demon will raise the fire from hell to stop them from escape . among méliès many fantasy film and le chaudron infernal be definitely one of the most impressive of all despite it short runtime and a the addition of color take the film to a whole new level and make méliès many trick look even more amazing than before . to his usual array of dissolve and camera trick and méliès add the effect of draw over the celluloid ( an effect make famous year later by the godzilla film of the 60 ) and use the hand color technique not only to make the film look nicer and but to make an effect in itself . on a completely different subject and it interest to see that in this movie méliès continue his preference for theme of horror and black magic and a he know that it in the horror genre where he will be able to exploit his special effect to shock and impress his audience . be objective and the only problem of le chaudron infernal be definitely it runtime and a consider that by 1903 george méliès have already do le voyage dans la lune and one would think that this film be a bit too short . however and there be a reason for this considerably short runtime represent it short because the process of color the film be lengthy and and méliès wasn not able to make long color film ( and as write above and that why he only make 7 colored short in his career ) . despite this problem and le chaudron infernal be definitely one of the most interesting movie do by the legendary french magician and not only because of it inventive use of color a a special effect and but also because of it place in the history of the horror genre . this movie be definitely pure cinemagic . positive .