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L’Homme mouche
FRANCE · 1902

L’Homme mouche

Georges Méliès
magic acrobatics Indian performer gravity-defying stunts silent film spectacle
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Synopsis

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment of six pretty maidens. Then, to the astonishment of all, he runs up the wall, dances and turns handsprings in mid-air, introducing many tricks that are entirely new in animated photography. The most puzzling of all the mystical series. (Star Film Cat

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