Crying and Laughing

Crying and Laughing (French: Gens qui pleurent et Gens qui rient) is a 1900 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 306 in its catalogues.^[1]

Crying and Laughing
Directed by	Georges Méliès
Production company	Star Film Company
Release date	1900 (1900)
Running time	20 meters[1] (approx. 1 min.)[2]
Country	France
Language	Silent

The survival status of the film is unclear. In a 1979 book, John Frazer reported that he had seen the film in a private collection; it was a one-minute medium shot of two people together, one crying, one laughing manically.^[3] However, Jacques Malthête's 2008 filmography of Méliès's work lists the film as lost.^[1] In 2020, the film festival Il Cinema Ritrovato featured a one-minute film from the archives of the Centre national du cinéma, listing the film as Gens qui pleurent, gens qui rient and suggesting that it may be Méliès's film; the attribution is to "[Georges Méliès?]", with a question mark.^[2]