The Pigeon Fairy

A beautiful seductive fairy makes gentle winged creatures appear.

The Charmer

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman.

Easter Eggs

A magical woman and her magical eggs.

The War and the Dream of Momi

"The War and the Dream of Momi" was a patriotic war film directed by Giovanni Pastrone. Segundo de Chomón was responsible for the animation effects.

Andalusian Superstition

A woman imagines the revenge of a gypsy that she sent away. This piece is told in multiple scenes, in an increasingly artificial world, as the venue shifts from a realistic courtyard to a wild, stagebound prison in which various stage monsters appear.

Sweet Dreams Intermingled With Nightmares

A woman falls asleep on a park bench. The Devil appears and summons an imp who takes the woman to his fantastic lair. After a nightmarish episode, the woman awakens only to promptly doze off again. Now a fairy appears who shows the woman a beautiful dreamland.

Kiri-Kis

A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.

The Electric Hotel

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

Tom Thumb

This adaptation of Charles Perrault's classic novel briefly presents the story of a poor family who doesn't find means to sustain their home and end up being evicted from it. When the youngest of the seven children overhears his parents conversation about this sad situation, he cries for a while. But barely everyone knew, that he was about to come up with a thoughtful idea that could restore their peace and bring back their home.

The Frog

A frog hops around a magic fountain.

Le Voleur invisible

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test the invisibility formula described by the author…

Beginning of the Serpentine Dance

In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder). They begin a minuet and their costumes change in a sudden. A man enters and seems interested in what he sees, casts a spell and everything disappears. Transforming himself into the devil, the visitor takes the violinist with him to hell, where he creates a large piece of silk out of a cauldron. The fabric unrolls, revealing a young woman in a silk dress that starts dancing the serpentine. While she dances, ot...

A Panicky Picnic

A man and his wife try to enjoy a picnic, but strange and surreal happenings prevent them from doing so.

Miniature Theatre

Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and begin to perform a series of routines.

Barcelona Park at Twilight

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.

Paper Cock-a-Doodles

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

Dance of Ouled Nail

A short film featuring several dancers from different countries: first an Arabian dancer, then an Algerian belly dancer, and finally Scottish highlanders in kilts performing a jig. Section one is rendered in hand-color.

Electric Current

A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.

Enchanted Glasses

Devilish looking man dances with a dress in his arms. The dress stands up by itself and a woman magician appears in it. She conjures six women and then makes them disappear. She magically changes into men's clothing and lines up six boxes which begin to smoke and produce six women, whose clothing transforms from formal gowns to ballet dresses. The magician makes them disappear. She then lines up six glasses on a table, and, as she pours wine into them, a woman appears in each glass. She makes the wine go back into the container and everythin...

The Golden Beetle

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.