The first hand-tinted movie, showing a group of dancers.
Un bref conte fantastique impliquant une étrange fée qui peut produire et accoucher de bébés sortant de choux. Ce film est perdu (ou n'a jamais existé ?), Les copies en ligne sont en fait le remake de 1900.
A barber's customer is not accustomed to the blade. Luckily, the coiffeur has a modern solution.
In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.
Un homme barbu s'installe dans la chambre d'une auberge. Alors qu'il a le dos tourné, ses bagages disparaissent, puis son chapeau entreprend de ramper dans tous les sens.
Identifié à tort comme Alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou La cornue infernale
Faust accepte les conditions que lui impose Méphisto et celui-ci le transforme en un jeune homme richement paré. Apparition de Marguerite devant laquelle Faust tombe en extase.
Faust dans son laboratoire entrevoit Marguerite dans une vision, il appelle Méphisto et celui-ci apparaît brusquement devant lui.
Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when the bust leaves the body and crossing the room mocks at him standing with the lower portion of her body in his hands. Further startling illusions are seen in this most beautiful picture.
An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.
St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!
Un astronome est penché sur ses livres. Le diable apparaît et tente de lui insuffler de mauvaises idées. Il est chassé par une déesse lunaire. L'astronome fait des calculs sur son tableau qui soudain s'anime tout seul. Un peu déboussolé, l'astronome regarde la lune avec son télescope.
The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and clay head on the statue, thus completing it. He places a large brick on top of the head to make it stick. When he turns his back the statue turns into a living representation of William Tell. (Edison Catalog)
A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.
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 of containing the magician a lively clown steps forth who further mystifies the audience by causing the box to disappear, and in its place is seen a fully laid table with a smoking dinner, to which the clown applies himself. The table, however, suddenly disappears much to the astonishment of the clown, who is confronted by the magician in the garb of Mephistopheles. This he suddenly changes to that of a sculptor, and in the background is seen a pedestal with the bust of a young lady, which comes to life as the sculptor applies the mallet and chisel.
One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.
Un squelette danse, s'effondrant de temps en temps en un tas d'os et se reconstituant rapidement.
An adaptation of the folk tale.
Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.
He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast. Mephistopheles appears; then the old witch, who suddenly changes to a beautiful young girl. The changes and magical appearances are startling and instantaneous.