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To fully describe the action as it occurs in this subject would cover several pages. Suffice it to say that, for surprising and startling incidents, black art and ghostly doings, marvelous effects and humorous, it is second to none of the many preceding subjects of a like character.

An Indian rajah is sleeping in a splendid palace. He is awakened by an enormous butterfly and tries to catch it. Suddenly his bed disappears and the rajah falls to the ground and is transported to a wood, wherein he fights with many comical apparitions. At length a great number of fairies appear (forming a ballet) and condemn the rajah to be beheaded. The moment when the executioner lifts up his sword to strike off the head of the rajah, the latter fights the executioner, and suddenly is seen in his bed (as at the beginning of the picture), fighting with his pillows. Humorous. Splendid in colors.

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return to his head and shoulders as soon as he takes them off. The chairs, his umbrella, his hat, etc., fly away in different directions and by various methods.

In this extraordinary film a conjurer divides himself into two similar persons. Then the two conjurers place a cardboard head on a table, the head comes to life, and one of the conjurers passes under the table, to show that there is nothing underneath. The body of a lady gradually appears under the head, thereby completing the figure. The two conjurers try to kiss her, but Mephistopheles appears behind one of them and the lady disappears gradually leaving the two operators facing each other. The conjurers, seeing the Devil, run away, but the Devil at this stage dispenses with his disguise, and is then recognized as the original conjurer as at the beginning.

In twenty scenes, with dissolving effects, tricks and spectacular tableaux. Snow scenes, night effects, marches.





This film is one of the most laughable of mysterious pictures made. An extremely lean man and an extremely fat man are engaged in a wrestling match. The lean man attacks the fat one viciously, but cannot budge him from the floor. After wrestling furiously for a while, the fat man falls upon the lean one and crushes him