The Human Pyramid (French: La Pyramide de Triboulet, "Triboulet's Pyramid") is an 1899 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès.

Plot

In an ornate room, the jester Triboulet magically summons nine men from a trunk, seats them in levels forming a pyramid, and turns them into women in court dress.

Release

Méliès acts in the film as Triboulet, famously the jester for the French kings Louis XII and Francis I.^[1] He made another film featuring Triboulet, The King and the Jester, in 1907.^[2] The Human Pyramid was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 218 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a tableau sensationnel pour coloris ("a sensational scene for hand-coloring").^[1]

Méliès burned all the surviving original camera negatives of his films toward the end of his life, and about three-fifths of his output is presumed lost. The Human Pyramid was among the lost films until 2007, when a copy was identified and restored by the Filmoteca de Catalunya.^[3]

References

External links

• The Human Pyramid at IMDb
• The Human Pyramid on YouTube