Cast
Georges Méliès Jehanne d'Alcy
Credits
Produced by: Robert W. Paul
Plot
A magician covers a woman on a chair with a cloth and makes her vanish, turns her into a skeleton, then brings her back. It is one of the first films to use a trick cut.
Sinekatalog’s take
Georges Méliès's 1896 short shows a magician making a woman vanish under a cloth, turning her into a skeleton and bringing her back. Brief and dazzling, it is among the first films to use a trick cut, pure cinema magic.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.0 / 10 (492 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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