A legless seller of matches falls asleep and dreams of matches performing tricks in stop-motion animation in this trick film from 1910.
Apparently produced to take advantage of the market for such films, a demand made evident by the succeed of Emile Cohl's series of animation in France, this one pretty much follows the pattern as box after box of wooden match forms into various configurations, ending with a windmill that burns down. I don't recall if Cohl ever did one involving match sticks, it would have looked pretty much like this.
The director of this piece, Guido Seeber, was a cinematographer with a taste for technical oddities. He ended up working with Paul Leni.
