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- A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
- A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
- Black and white film where two ladies in white throw coins to poor kids. Filmed in Vietnam.
- A magnificent Venetian oratory. On the left a large bay window through which may be seen the Grand Canal of the city of Venice. In the centre a colonnade and a hemicycle; to the right is a statue of the Madonna. At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade falls to pieces, disclosing the devil. Juliet, frightened, runs to the window and calls Romeo. The latter attempts to enter and protect his fiancée, but at a gesture from the devil the window is instantly covered with a grating and Romeo makes frantic efforts to break it. The devil begins to dance a wild dance before Juliet, who is beside herself from terror. The devil gradually becomes the size of a giant (a novel effect). Juliet implores the statue of Madonna, which becomes animated, descends from its pedestal, and stretching out its arms orders the devil to disappear. The devil grows smaller and smaller and finally becomes a tiny dwarf, then he is lost in space. The window resumes its first form and Romeo embraces his beloved, with the benediction of the Virgin.
- A Brahmin comes upon a giant caterpillar, which turns into a cross between a butterfly and a girl: the Brahmin finally turns into a caterpillar.
- Fend l'air, a flying machine, flies over the heights of Paris.
- A hotel porter tries in his spare time to find out the secrets of the guests in looking through the keyholes of the different rooms. He must see very funny things, judging from his facial expressions.
- A spectacular performance, in twelve tableaux, of the most popular and best known fairy tale in history. From this most simple tale we have produced a play that is both pleasing and amusing to young and old, introducing as we do many surprising tricks and dissolving effects. We have followed as near as possible the tale of Perrault, which is well known to all, and which has been translated into all languages. We have, on account of the peculiar effects that must be introduced in animated pictures, arranged it also with humorous features, without which it would not have been so highly interesting and pleasing as a motion picture demonstration of the fairy tale. The story itself is doubtless familiar to many of our customers, and we will, therefore, not attempt to describe it in our catalogue matter, except to state that it is composed of the finest trick and dissolving effects ever introduced, and that the action is replete from start to finish with humorous, emotional and spectacular situations.
- Georges Méliès plays the main character, as he splits into two versions of himself, and changes size.
- In this trickery extravaganza, Excelsior, the wizard of illusion, pulls out a handkerchief from his pocket, and after that, everything is possible in his rare and spectacular show.
- A burglar is arrested for a murder. He is condemned to death. Before his execution the murderer dreams of his past, of how he was a bank clerk, then turned to crime. The criminal is then taken out of his cell, and a moment later is executed.
- A very comical looking traveler enters his room to go to bed. He takes off his hat which at once goes back on his head again, and all his clothes serve him the same trick. Utterly bewildered, he puts his foot on the things as he takes them off. As he is on the point of getting into bed, he falls back again, fully dressed. He kicks his hat which falls on his head, and he then leaves the room, finding it impossible to undress.
- Japanese drug addicts smoking opium.
- In a mysterious cavern, a magician performs a magic show that includes a dancing skeleton and a woman who is levitated.
- A bachelor meets with a magician to conjure the perfect mate.
- After killing Cassandre to steal her treasure, Pierrot tries to bury the corpse under a pile of manure, but he cannot succeed. Death pursues him, he sees it everywhere. The bag of crowns that he wants to seize, the dial of the clock, the family portraits, everything turns into a skull. He wants to open a cupboard, it is again the specter of the victim that appears to him, he flees, it is a gendarme waiting for him at the door. The garden itself was transformed into a cemetery. Distraught, mad, he falls. Immediately, his visions disappear and everything returns to normal.
- A clown tries to hang his coat on a chair which promptly vanishes and in its place is a bucket of water. Seizing a broom, he dips it into the water and proceeds to brush his coat which immediately catches fire and a soda water bottle comes in very useful. Feeling slightly disturbed in his mind over these occurrences, he sits down on a chair to think only to find that it has suddenly changed into a lighted lamp which makes things very warm for him. His Satanic Majesty appears and the clown tries to catch him but is only a very poor second and finally throws himself head first into a large water barrel where presumably his troubles are ended.
- Here is decided novelty. The figure is very large and the facial expression is wonderful to a marked degree. A man is seated at a table on which is lying a revolver and a bottle of whiskey. He pours out a drink, and is about to swallow it when he stops to reason with himself. Laying aside the whiskey, he seizes the revolver and places it to his temple, is about to blow out his brains, when he again changes his mind and drinks the whiskey. We consider this to be one of the finest life motion pictures ever made.
- A well-dressed middle-aged man is enjoying a drink at a table with a pretty young woman. He flirts with her, and she seems not to mind his attentions. But is it all too good to be true?
- Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some treasure beneath the waves.
- The scene opens in a wizard's cavern, showing an inanimate figure resting against a table. The wizard with some mysterious passes converts her into a living woman, and after laying her on some trestles and covering her over with a large sheet of paper, saws her in halves. Taking the two cones of paper he places them on separate tables, when, on being removed, they disclose two ladies in the place of the one who has been cut in half. From the same receptacle he then proceeds to materialize six other beautiful damsels, who, after performing a mazy dance, vanish into thin air. The two maidens that remain are then duplicated and put through the most amazing complications, being merged into one person, and again duplicated; finally, however, they walk to the front of the stage together with the wizard, and, after bowing to the spectators, withdraw.
- The funniest of all mystical pictures yet produced. Several body parts of a dancing clown float away from his body and come back again.
- A burglar commits an omicide during a robbery. He is arrested and forced to cope with serious consequences.
- An artist changes costume 15 times without leaving the stage: in street clothes, Devil, Mexican sailor, Pierrot, Napoleon, policeman, maid, Arab, firefighter, Chinese, light woman, bourgeois, soldier, clown.
- A very comical picture, depicting two burglars who have entered the store room of a vineyard, apparently for the purpose of committing burglary. They discover the long line of wine barrels and go about sampling each. They are finally interrupted in their operations by two watchmen. They seize the watchmen, and knocking the heads out of two wine barrels, throw them in head first, leaving the watchmen kicking and squirming endeavoring to get away. A policeman enters and pulling the watchmen out of the barrel, mistakes them for burglars and arrests them, ending as usual, by the victims getting the worst of it.