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- The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
- An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
- The nightmare of Émile Cohl's chalk animation is one of unreliable appearances. Fishermen catch fish which eat them whole. Ladders transform into coils which just as suddenly take the form of angry mustachioed soldiers. The human figure at the receiving end of these transmogrifications is subject to all manner of degradations. Genuinely unsettling, THE PUPPET'S NIGHTMARE anticipates Don Hertzfeldt's stick-figure fantasias by a century.
- A cast of stick figures plays out a series of comic vignettes.
- A boy dreams toys come to life.
- In the middle of a theatre stage, much to our surprise, a modern sculptor's minuscule creations come to life, until the grand finale where an astonishing metamorphosis awaits.
- At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken to jail. There he has a nightmare, wherein three busts are created and animated from clay (through stop-motion photography) in the likenesses of Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republicans Charles W. Fairbanks and William Howard Taft. Finally an animated bust of Roosevelt appears.
- A magician gives a young girl a magic hoop which, when mounted on a wall, displays fantastic images.
- Out from behind two Chinese parasols come two women in oriental costume. They bow and smile to the audience, and calling on two Chinese men they are presented with a prettily decorated board, which they place a black cut-out on. These black cut-outs (Chinese shadows) then become animated, morphing into various figures and objects which do wild and wacky stunts. The oriental women then have the board taken off, and finally they disappear completely before coming back on for a final bow.
- The same mysterious ring of Émile Cohl's THE MAGIC HOOP reappears here to bring to life a case of toy soldiers (ninety years ahead of TOY STORY). When one is left behind, a strange course of events leads him to a distant tribe. THE LITTLE SOLDIER WHO BECAME A GOD is easily one of the most surreal of Cohl's live action/stop motion hybrids. This film features actors performing in blackface. Fandor does not condone racist stereotyping, but blackface is nonetheless a significant aspect of American history in general and film history specifically. Early cinema was deeply rooted in vaudeville, where blackface was a popular staple. As film critic Ty Burr wrote in a recent assessment of Al Jolson's THE JAZZ SINGER, "Minstrelsy was the then-accepted cultural mechanism by which the governing white culture could appropriate and tame various representations of black people." The history of blackface is complex (even African American performers donned burnt cork to appear onstage in the early 1900s), and its legacy is far from being resolved. While blackface iconography appears offensive today, it remains deeply telling of the culture from which it emerged.
- A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human beings, and dance a wild saraband around the place. After performing many unique tricks they disappear into space, and are replaced by a group of knives and forks, pans, kettles and spoons. These are all supplied with arms and legs, and dance around the chef as he lies on the floor. Soon one of the knives and forks, drawing near to his prostrate body, proceed to cut him into many small pieces, which are then placed in a pan to be made into a delicious stew.
- A series of magic productions with a box of matches. Well rendered and highly entertaining throughout.
- Children play with their toys while Grandpa dozes. he dreams that the doll's house catches fire and the toys rush to put out the flames. he awakens to find the children squirting him with water.
- Matchsticks come to life and perform tricks.
- A pencil draws pictures which come to life.
- Paper tears itself into shapes that change into other shapes.
- An artist draws a prehistoric man who then comes to life.