The Pillar of Fire (French: Danse du feu), initially released in America and Britain as Haggard's "She"—The Pillar of Fire[1] and also known as La Colonne de feu,[2] is an 1899 silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès[3] based on H. Rider Haggard's 1887 novel She: A History of Adventure.
The Pillar of Fire was the first film to be based on H. Rider Haggard's 1887 novel She: A History of Adventure.
[2] Rather than attempting to tell the whole story of the novel, Méliès used one of its characters as inspiration for a trick film,[4] recalling the scene in the novel in which Ayesha stands amid flames.
[4] Like many of Méliès's films, The Pillar of Fire was offered in a hand-colored print with coloring designed and directed by Elisabeth Thuillier.
The surviving hand-colored print of the film is an ornate example of Thuillier's work for Méliès.