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.

Helmed by Giovanni Pastrone, with Segundo de Chomón ably handling the stop-motion animation segment, The War and the Dream of Momi is equal parts patriotic pageantry and eye-popping puppetry.

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 penetrates into their caves when they have caught the spider and imprisoned it there. He watches the wonderful spider making gold and other articles with wonder and in this scene the moving picture camera has excelled itself in turning out some good tricks, and finally he steals the golden spider. (Moving Picture World)

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.

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.