The Invisible Men
About The Invisible Men
An alchemist finds an elixir that makes him invisible, tries it on himself, and hides the bottle. Two thieves break in. One opens a cupboard and jumps back from a skeleton dancing a saraband. They find the elixir, see what it does, and take the bottle. At a second-hand clothes shop they trade their rags for livery and vanish when the bill is presented. Hughes Laurent, recalling the shoot, also described a restaurant bill three meters long and a court made of carrots, turnips, and onions, moved by men in black velvet.
Cast & crew
More about The Invisible Men
Gaston Velle directed. Pathé numbered it 1372, in the March 1906 listings. The French title is Les Invisibles. English titles include The Invisible Men and Invisible Thief. The print was hand-colored.
Themes
Preservation
An incomplete print survives.
Notes
- Pathé catalogue 1372. A Spanish listing calls it Los invisibles.
- The men in black velvet are how the vegetables of the court were made to move, according to Laurent.
- A surviving copy on Wikimedia Commons is marked incomplete and dated 1905 on the filename.
Scenes
- A skeleton dances in the cupboard when the thieves open it.
- They disappear rather than pay the clothes dealer.
