An Artist's Dream
About An Artist's Dream
In a painter's studio, Mephisto appears and signals the pictures to life. They step out of the frames and look at their costumes. He wakes the painter and vanishes. The painter embraces the woman in the picture at his right. She disappears on the second try. He wakes again.
Cast & crew
More about An Artist's Dream
Edwin S. Porter directed the one-minute trick film.
Themes
Technique
Stop-substitution lets the painted figures leave the frames and vanish when the painter grabs one.
Notes
- The gag is a substitution: figures leave their frames, then the woman the painter grabs is gone.
Scenes
- The figures leave their frames.
- The painter embraces the woman and she disappears.
