Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.
An astronomer has a terrifying dream.
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.
A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal player sits down, a drummer appears in the second chair, and then likewise moves on to the third chair. In this way, an entire band is soon formed, and is then ready to perform.
A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.
A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.
A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.
A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.
An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!
Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.
With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus tries to make some repairs but succeeds only in heating the bolts and burning Zeus's hands. Zeus conjures nine muses, but do their incantations help? He dismisses them as well as a visiting Pan, and his fits of pique become counter-productive. Can he get his powers back?
An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.
A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.
A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.
A magician produces a living portrait of himself.
Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and Demange, with whom he is seen in animated conversation. A visit from his wife is announced, who enters. The meeting of the husband and wife is most pathetic and emotional.
A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.
