Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into a hoop with strange properties for a young girl. Costume changes and city promenades give way towards greater abstraction as the film becomes absorbed by what goes on inside the ring.
Nov 1908
A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.
Oct 1908
"A mythological scene with the most beautiful effect" (Nouveautés Cinématographiques, 1908)
Sep 1908
Overview of ideas about the police on the occasion of an attack on the bourgeois by Apaches gangsters.
