Méliès films could be made simply by combining the domestic and foreign prints of the film. Serge Bromberg, the founder of Lobster Films, presented 3D versions of The Mysterious Retort and two 1903 Méliès films, The Infernal Cauldron and The Oracle of Delphi, at a September 2011 presentation at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. A similar screening by Bromberg, without The Mysterious Retort but including the other two films, had occurred at a January 2010 presentation at the Cinémathèque Française. According to the film critic Kristin Thompson, "the effect of 3D was delightful … the films as synchronized by Lobster looked exactly as if Méliès had designed them for 3D." One of the surviving prints of the film, held at the Cinémathèque française, is a stencil-colored version. It is unknown whether Méliès authorized the coloring, as the stencil process is highly unusual in his oeuvre; normally, his films were colored using an entirely freehand method supervised by the colorist Elisabeth Thuillier. References External links Films directed by Georges Méliès French silent short films 1906 films 1900s 3D films Articles containing video clips 3D short films French black-and-white films