The Barber of Seville (1904 film) prepared a special film score for "The Barber of Seville", adapted from the most well-known arias from the Rossini opera. Like at least 4% of Méliès's entire output (including such films as "A Trip to the Moon", "The Impossible Voyage", "The Kingdom of the Fairies", and "The Rajah's Dream"), some prints were individually hand-colored and sold at a higher price. The film is currently presumed lost. The Barber of Seville (1904 film) The Barber of Seville (), also released as The Barber of Sevilla, or the Useless Precaution, was a 1904 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on
Benjamin Barber at Albert Schweitzer College (1959) and the London School of Economics (1957). Barber's father, Philip W. Barber, directed the New York City unit of the Federal Theatre Project, which produced plays including "Macbeth" and the Living Newspaper. His mother, Doris Frankel, was a playwright and wrote for television. Barber was also active as a playwright, lyricist (libretto for George Quincy's opera "Home and the River") and film-maker ("The Struggle for Democracy", with Patrick Watson, and "Music Inn", with Ben Barenholtz). Barber died on April 24, 2017, after a four-month battle with cancer. Barber was a Senior Research Scholar at The