Elastic Transformation
About Elastic Transformation
A woman enters a room with a man. She makes a second copy of him, then changes who he appears to be by throwing clothes from one figure to the other. Pathé released the scene as a trick picture.
Cast & crew
More about Elastic Transformation
Jean Durand directed and devised the film. Segundo de Chomón did the photography and the trick work. Joaquim Renez is the performer. French Wikipedia and the catalog year both say 1908. Some listings date it 1909. Pathé distributed it. French Wikipedia and the Commons file time it at 1 minute and 1 second. The French title is Transformations élastiques. An alternate title is Les Vêtements cascadeurs. The American release title is Elastic Transformation.
Themes
Making
Chomón was Pathé's specialist for substitution and stop-motion while Durand was staging comic shorts for the same company.
Look
Segundo de Chomón photographed the room and executed the substitution tricks.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A one-minute print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Wikidata spells the actor Joachim Renez. The French page and the catalog use Joaquim.
- A Commons caption once called Chomón the producer. The file description itself assigns direction to Durand and camera and effects to Chomón.
- The Commons file was media of the day on Wikimedia on January 4, 2013.
- The picture is a single-scene costume and body trick, not a chase.
Scenes
- The woman produces a duplicate of the man.
- She throws clothes from one figure onto the other and the identity changes.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Transformations elastiques (1908) - yt.webm)
