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La Flamme merveilleuse
FRANCE · 1903

La Flamme merveilleuse

Georges Méliès
magic juggling transformation illusion vaudeville
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Synopsis

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The handkerchief, after being twirled about a wand, is changed to a napkin, and afterward to a tablecloth. Out of the table cloth comes a servant.

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