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             [Roi Midas] 
            Also known as [King Midas] 
            (1908) France 
            B&W : Short film 
            Directed by (unknown) 
            Cast: (unknown) 
            Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont production; distributed by [?] Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont? / [?] 35mm spherical format? / An early example of combined hand-coloring, with color-tinting and color-toning. [?] Possibly released in the USA as The Legend of King Midas (1910) (at 654 feet) by Kleine Optical Company on 26 February 1910; in a split-reel with Blue Fishing Nets (1910). [?] The film was acquired from the Josef Joye film collection in Zürich, Switzerland, and is the source of the above tentative title. 
            [?] Drama? 
            Survival status: Print exists in the Archivio Davide Turconi film archive [incomplete]. 
            Current rights holder: (unknown) 
            Listing updated: 31 October 2010. 
            References: Image-34-1-2 pp. 33, 38 : Website-AFI. 
            
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