early short of Segundo de Chomón

A man and his wife try to enjoy a picnic, but strange and surreal happenings prevent them from doing so.

In a medieval palace, an astronomer with a telescope shows the king

A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.

A conjurer in Chinese garb jumps out of a box that's about two feet wide and six inches high. He conjures an assistant from the same box plus a young woman, who then disappears into the box. He continuously picks up the box and shows us the empty inside. Next, he removes many small boxes from the larger box, stacks them on top of each other after making a base row of six or seven. The stacked boxes (magic bricks) become a movie screen, revealing the image of a laughing child. The magician knocks the bricks down with his wand and the child disappears, one row at a time. The conjurer has the bricks fly back to re-form the screen, and we see the Pathé Frères cock.

意大利名导Giovanni Pastrone与西班牙名导Segundo de Chomón合作的一部巨作。

A devilish-like man appears in a puff of smoke. He conjures up a dress which stands by itself, and vanishes. A woman appears in the dress, and, taking a blanket makes various pretty girls appear and disappear. She then transforms her clothing into that of a man, and lines up several pedestals. There is a sudden rush of steam, and the same pretty girls we've seen before are shown standing on them. The magician then turns them into roses, which she drops on a little table. Taking several glasses and lining them up on the table, she pours wine into each, and yet again we are shown the same pretty girls, nodding and smiling. The woman pours water into the wine and the images of the women dissolve. The pedestals and the table vanish in a burst of fire, the woman bows, and changes herself back into the dress magically. The dress now stands up by itself once more, the devilish-like man appears again, and after making it disappear, explodes in a puff of smoke.