Production
Hand-painted color segments—literally colored frame by frame!
Direction
Feuillade's restrained tableaux before his crime serial era.

Director
Louis Feuillade
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hand-coloring each frame required teams of women painting directly on film stock with tiny brushes.
This was 'prestige' content for Pathé—religious films justified cinema as respectable art, not just novelty.