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 Catalog)
The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.
An astronomer has a terrifying dream.
An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.
A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from behind it. The dog becomes a woman, then a masked man appears. The conjurer sits them each on a box a few feet apart: suddenly the woman and man have changed places. The disappearing and the transfers continue in front of a simple backdrop.
A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.
After being defeated in a fight by a local gang, local official Lu Fengyang sends his weak and sickly son Lu Xiaoqing to study with a master of the Kunlun school of martial arts. Recovered and strong, he comes upon the Red Lotus Temple, and puts up there for the night. Unable to sleep, he begins looking around the palatial temple, and discovers a room decorated with many images of Buddhist demons, and an altar to worship them... Purposely destroyed serial film whose 19 full length chapters (averaging 86 minutes each) originally ran 27 hours in length.
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
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.
A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.
A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the same time
A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.
St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!
A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.
A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.
Magic tricks in a medieval setting.
A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family. The film is currently presumed lost.
A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.
