Enchanted Glasses
About Enchanted Glasses
A devil-faced man dances with a dress in his arms. The dress stands up, and a woman magician is inside it. She produces six women and vanishes them, changes into men's clothes, and lines up six boxes that smoke out six more women, whose gowns turn into ballet dresses. She sets six glasses on a table and pours wine, and a woman appears in each glass. The wine runs back into the bottle, the table goes up in smoke, and she leaves the dress standing alone. The devil returns, turns the dress into torches, and disappears with them.
Cast & crew
More about Enchanted Glasses
Segundo de Chomón directed the trick film for Pathé. Julienne Mathieu is the performer named on the film's credits. The French title is Les Verres enchantés. The Library of Congress synopsis matches the action above. The running time is 4 minutes.
Themes
Making
The short is a parade of substitutions on one stage: a dress, six women, six boxes, six glasses, smoke, and torches.
Technique
Women are substituted into empty glasses as the wine is poured, then removed when the wine returns to the bottle.
Preservation
A Library of Congress synopsis records the trick sequence shot for shot.
Notes
- The Library of Congress summary is the source of the shot-by-shot description.
- Mathieu is the woman who steps into the empty dress.
- The last change turns that dress into torches.
Scenes
- The empty dress stands, and the magician is suddenly in it.
- A woman appears in each glass as the wine goes in.
- The devil turns the abandoned dress into torches and leaves in the smoke.
