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poster Transformation by Hats

Transformation by Hats

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

poster Children Digging for Clams

Children Digging for Clams

1mn - Documentary

Children dig for clams on the beach

poster The Famous Box Trick

The Famous Box Trick

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

poster Le cigare introuvable

Le cigare introuvable

Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.

poster The Oracle of Delphi

The Oracle of Delphi

2mn - Crime, Fantasy

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts a curse on him.

poster The Gold Spider

The Gold Spider

Some gnomes are searching for a wonderful spider that weaves webs of golden coins. Intent on their search, they are unaware that their movements are closely followed by a poor woodcutter, who also penetra…

poster The Magician

The Magician

1mn - Fantasy, Drama

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides of the box fall to the ground, but instead …

poster The Thieving Hand

The Thieving Hand

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show his appreciation, takes the peddler to a 'Limb Store', wh…

poster Game of Cards

Game of Cards

1mn - Comedy, History

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

poster The Vain Parlor Maid

The Vain Parlor Maid

A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body with her own. She takes off her clothes one by one, th…

poster Trapeze Disrobing Act

Trapeze Disrobing Act

The stage of a vaudeville theatre. A lady in evening costume is performing on a trapeze. Two Rubes are seated in a box. The lady begins to disrobe, and here the fun commences. As she removes her garments …

poster The Magician's Cavern

The Magician's Cavern

3mn - Comedy, Fantasy

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

poster Games of Youth

Games of Youth

1mn - Documentary

Compilation of two shorts also distributed independently: Cricket und Reifenspiel [Croquet and the Arc and Hook Game], and Springschnur und Amazonen [Jump Roping and the Amazons]. In a sunny day, on a law…

poster Fishing for Goldfish

Fishing for Goldfish

1mn - Documentary

A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.

poster The Golden Louis

The Golden Louis

An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune, but he can't find her again to repay her.

C-Man

A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.

poster Comical Conjuring

Comical Conjuring

In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, believing that he would be comfortable in an armchair, s…

poster A Tricky Painter’s Fate

A Tricky Painter’s Fate

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.

poster Aquarium

Aquarium

1mn - Documentary

Different species of fish and frogs, inside an aquarium.

poster The Magic Book

The Magic Book

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

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