because if you watch this short film without knowing at all what the Cinderella tale is about, you'd quickly be lost and that's never a good thing for a film. It needs to tell us a story that we understand and while Méliès manages most of the time to do so, this one proved too big of a challenger. Visually, however, it's as nice as always with him, especially the hand-colored fairy all dressed in red. The little bearded man with the clocks implying time runs out was a bit of an oddity. I'm not exactly certain if he appears in the tale or if it was just one of Méliès' funnily odd inventions. Good addition in any case. Most of the aspects of the story are depicted convincingly if you know it beforehand. One thing though that i really wasn't too fond of was the huge dance near the end. Should have ended after the weeding IMO. Still a decent work and you could see Méliès and film industry in 1906 slowly opened up to longer movies. This was a step ahead.
Review of Cinderella
