An Up-to-Date Conjurer (1899)

• 64%
• 1899
• Comedy
• Georges Méliès

A magician holds a mannequin, dressed in female clothing, on a tabletop. As he taps it lightly, the dummy transforms into a ballet dancer who in turn does a brief dance for the audience. The magician, standing an enormous tube on the table, now covers his assistant with a cloth. As he whisks it away, she has vanished, only to come out from under the tube on the table. She blows kisses to the audience; the magician shreds her into confetti. Covering himself with the cloth, he vanishes and comes out from under the tube once again, before jumping off the table again and transforming into the dancer in mid-air. This is repeated, the dancer being transformed back into the magician, after which he turns a somersault and vanishes into space. Coming in through the stage door, he sits on the table and explodes in a puff of smoke.