三个人在玩纸牌，他们是安东尼·卢米埃尔，他的好友特莱威，酿酒商阿·温克勒。这三个胖子都把肥大的脚踏在地上，身体占据了大半个银幕。后景是一些栽种在盆里的棕榈树。在纸牌游戏的过程中，温克勒倒啤酒；安东尼·卢米埃尔燃起雪茄，口中喷出烟圈；路易·卢米埃尔的仆人费洛则满脸堆笑，样子看上去十分诙谐，一会把手臂举向天空为主人的牌局叫好，一会儿又手拍臀部好像为主人着急。纸牌游戏结束后，其中一个玩纸牌者将赢得的钱装进自己的口袋。

卢米埃尔No.105




This approximately 40-second long Lumiere Brothers short (Lumiere No. 105) featu res frequent Lumiere collaborator Félicien Trewey performing a variation on his famed "chapeaugraphy". Here, sitting in a chair, he dons hats, fake facial hair and even facial prosthetics in quick succession to perform characters for a few seconds before moving on to the next.
While in terms of visual composition Transformation by Hats is not much to talk about, the short is notable and very successful as a further Lumiere Brothers exploration of the fictional possibilities of film. Otherwise, the Lumieres were better known for their "actualities", or short documentary portraits.
Trewey, who was responsible for bringing the Lumieres' cinématographe to England, more often executed his chapeaugraphy with a single large piece of felt which he would shape into different kinds of hats to wear as different characters, relying also on facial expressions and contortions to effect the change--something like John Barrymore's turn at Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920). Surely the shaping of felt into different kinds of hats would take more than 40 seconds, so here, Trewey depends on his quick change abilities instead, keeping his hats and accessories on the ground, out of the camera range.
It's remarkable how quickly and "cleanly" Trewey can don each "disguise". Editing had not yet been exploited (even though edits are present in the earliest days of film at least in some Edison company shorts), or surely the Lumieres would have capitalized on that unique property of the new film medium instead.
Of course, it's debatable just how much the Lumieres intended to demonstrate the potential of the new medium rather than simply present a friend performing a part of his live act that had been adapted to suit the limitations of the medium. The truth is probably a mixture of intentions.
At any rate, the effect on the burgeoning film industry was more to give a glimpse of the possibilities of characterization, to show a relatively easy technical way to create various convincing characters on film, as would be necessary in producing the more extensive fictions soon to come.

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