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In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assistant.
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Whimsical Illusions
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Alternative Titles
Kiagyalt képzelgések, Las ilusiones fantásticas
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France
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01 Dec 1909
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A guy pulls a plant out of another guy’s asshole in this. That’s fuckin cinema baby!
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How cool would it be to go back in time and have your mind shattered by Méliès.
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humanity will never move pass the need for dancing skeletons
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he's obviously no criss angel, but this Méliès fella might be on to something...
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cinema has NOT gotten better than this
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What can one say about this, not even a rudimentary plot, just Méliès doing magic tricks for the camera. It must have been absolutely insane to see this in 1909 and believe that anything in movies could be possible, even though I'm sure most if not all of these tricks could be done in not too different forms on the stage, it's interesting to me that simple editing tricks seem like fake magic to us now but at the time they probably seemed more magical than traditional stage techniques, even as I'm sure a lot of magicians at the time must have thought of it as cheating. Makes me think of that Arthur C Clarke quote about sufficiently advanced technology seeming like magic, with Méliès the two were never opposed to one another.
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This just rules. Hand-colored, Georges Méliès starred in this as the magician, probably blew the minds of audiences 100-plus years ago. So amazing that these early shorts were preserved and are so easily accessible to the public.
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this magician pulled a potted plant out of his assistant's ass, turned a guy into a skeleton, and dismembered santa claus. we need to stop him.
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There is nothing whimsical about decapitating Santa Claus, you french bastards
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magic magic magic
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My dream smoke circle is just me and Georges.
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Magician Youtubers are doing this exact kind of shit today only their camera cuts are better. Features a bat on a wire and wobbly skeleton boi so I’m considering this Halloween adjacent content.
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