In this film, a magician uses sleight of hand and stop-motion to make eggs appear and disappear--as well as morph into some pretty strange things. You just have to see this one...
If you see this film and think maybe you've seen it before, it might be because director Georges Méliès made many films like this. After all, before he became a film maker, he was a stage magician. And so, in many of his film, he himself (sporting a wig) does a stage magician act that is able to do tricks you could never really do on stage. Using stop-motion, things appear and disappear and change before the audience's eyes. While it's very obvious he's using stop-motion film work, back in the day this was hot stuff--and audiences were amazed and had no idea how he achieved these feats.
If you see this film and think maybe you've seen it before, it might be because director Georges Méliès made many films like this. After all, before he became a film maker, he was a stage magician. And so, in many of his film, he himself (sporting a wig) does a stage magician act that is able to do tricks you could never really do on stage. Using stop-motion, things appear and disappear and change before the audience's eyes. While it's very obvious he's using stop-motion film work, back in the day this was hot stuff--and audiences were amazed and had no idea how he achieved these feats.