American film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum named 1907's "Tunneling The English Channel" as one of his 100 favorite films of all-time. The Georges Melies movie depicts building a tunnel linking England and France, a subject highly talked about during the early 1900's. Melies filmed this on his Paris studio stage. England's King Edward and French President Fallieres begin the film by dreaming about the project. (The actor playing the king was a wash-house attendant who resembled the king.) The first half of the movie is blurry, but the second half is color-painted frame-by-frame by hand and is clear
