Comical Conjuring
About Comical Conjuring
A juggler in an odd costume enters a room of oversized props with his assistant. Georges Méliès plays the juggler. The servant sits in an armchair and drops into a bucket of water hidden in it. The juggler sets a large empty cask on a table and fills it from several pails.
Cast & crew
More about Comical Conjuring
Méliès directed this 1903 trick short, Star Film numbers 517–519. In the United States it was sold as Jack and Jim. The British title is Comical Conjuring.
Themes
Technique
Substitution splices and bursts of gunfire carry the tricks.
Scenes
- The servant sits and falls through the chair into a bucket of water.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Jack et Jim (1903).webm)
