The short films:

L'Insaisissable Pickpocket

  • Year: 1908
  • Country: France
  • Director: Segundo de Chomón
  • Duration: 4min

Two policemen try in vain to arrest a pickpocket, who escapes them thanks to incredible transformations... Segundo de Chomón shows his protagonist transforming himself into a scarecrow, or slipping surprisingly through the hole of a barrel.

Les Cent Trucs

  • Year: 1906
  • Country: France
  • Director: Segundo de Chomón
  • Duration: 3min

A graceful magician makes dancers or clowns appear from a box, makes them disappear, makes them perform the most beautiful pirouettes. For him, it is all child's play.

Les Vêtements cascadeurs

  • Director: Jean Durand
  • Duration: 1min

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next

El Hotel Electrico

  • Year: 1908
  • Country: France
  • Director: Segundo de Chomón
  • Duration: 7min

A married couple arrives at a revolutionary hotel where everything is automatic - a real dream! But then a drunken concierge does something wrong with the switches, causing the system to go completely haywire... One of the first stop-motion films.

Le Locataire diabolique

  • Year: 1909
  • Country: France
  • Director: Georges Méliès
  • Duration: 7min

A new tenant moves into a flat. From his suitcase he takes out an impressive set of furniture... Georges Méliès, who also shines in the lead role, proved that he was a real magician with tricks that were very ingenious for the time.

L'Étang enchanté

  • Year: 1907
  • Country: France
  • Director: Segundo de Chomón
  • Duration: 3min

On the bank of a pond, a magician plays with six naiads and five satyrs, making them appear and disappear with splashes, or behind a taut sheet. The pond bubbles and smokes.... A black-and-white film with a green tinge!

Extra info

Films of the very first pioneers and grandmasters! Fantastic stunts, magic tricks, and mesmerizing transformations take place!