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poster Barnum's Trunk
Barnum's Trunk
(3.0/5)
4mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.
poster Men Boxing
Men Boxing
1mn - Documentary
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
poster The Famous Box Trick
The Famous Box Trick
(3.1/5)
1mn - Fantasy
A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.
poster The Thieving Hand
The Thieving Hand
6mn - Comedy
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 Soap Bubbles
Soap Bubbles
4mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.
poster The Indian Sorcerer
The Indian Sorcerer
5mn - Fantasy
A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering children.
poster An Extraordinary Dislocation
An Extraordinary Dislocation
2mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.
poster The Golden Beetle
The Golden Beetle
3mn - Fantasy
A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.
poster The Inexhaustible Barrel
The Inexhaustible Barrel
5mn - Comedy
Wonderful trick film about two young girls and their magical barrel. Live animals and superb clothing keep jumping miraculously out of the barrel.
poster The Bewitched Trunk
The Bewitched Trunk
3mn - Fantasy
A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other people.
poster A Hundred Tricks
A Hundred Tricks
(2.8/5)
3mn - Comedy
poster Flip Flap
Flip Flap
(2.9/5)
7mn - Animation
Little Flip-Flap, a seal, is unhappy in the confines of the swimming tank in a big-city zoo. He breaks out and heads for the North Pole, where he meets a pretty girl-seal. She is captured by seal-hunters …
poster Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
3mn - Comedy
A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …
poster The Pillar of Fire
The Pillar of Fire
1mn - Fantasy
A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an an…
poster Eskimotive
Eskimotive
(3.2/5)
8mn - Animation
Felix & his friend have fun playing at blowing bubbles. Felix gets inside one and is blown away. The bubble lands on a snowy mountain and turns...
poster Der Jongleur
Der Jongleur
1mn - Documentary
A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.
poster The Magic Lantern
The Magic Lantern
5mn - Fantasy
Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girl…
poster An Impossible Balancing Feat
An Impossible Balancing Feat
1mn - Comedy
A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.
poster The Acrobatic Fly
The Acrobatic Fly
3mn - Documentary
Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a miniature dumbbell… Most extraordinary of all is the seq…
poster The Blacksmiths
The Blacksmiths
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water,…
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