A Hundred Tricks

1906 Comedy 3 minutes Directed by Segundo de Chomón

About A Hundred Tricks

In a drawing room a magician runs a string of appearances and disappearances. Clowns, a ballet dancer, and a lady show up, change clothes, double themselves, and switch from men to women. Acrobats and dancers assist. There is no other story.

Cast & crew

More about A Hundred Tricks

Segundo de Chomón directed for Pathé. The French title is Les Cent trucs. The Filmoteca de Catalunya describes the tricks as transformations, superimpositions, substitutions, and reverse motion.

Themes

Preservation

A print is held by the Filmoteca de Catalunya.

Notes

  • The Filmoteca holds it as a public-domain print and also lists the title Un centenar de juegos.
  • A reviewer who counted the tricks on screen stopped at twenty-nine.
  • It is a drawing-room act, not a chase or a féerie plot.

Scenes

  • A lady and a dancer appear, change costume, and vanish again.

Also available

  • Filmoteca de Catalunya