dr-no Review of The Mystic Swing

The Mystic Swing (1900)

This is an interesting short film from Mr. Edison.

[10/10 · 4 January 2002]

This is a very nice film, which uses trick photography. The premise is simple. Mephisto makes a woman appear on a swing he proves is not rigged somehow. The woman appears, and the other man makes her disapear, sthe process follows, until Mephisto makes a skeleton appear... You can view this and a lot of other classic short films from the Edison Kinectoscope company.