The Living Playing Cards
About The Living Playing Cards
A magician puts playing cards on a table. They turn into people who dance, change size, and multiply. Georges Méliès plays the magician. The French title is Les Cartes vivantes. The English Wikipedia dates the short to 1905. The year on this record stays 1904.
Cast & crew
More about The Living Playing Cards
Wikidata times it at 3 minutes. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The cards become the dancers. There is no separate troupe waiting offstage in the synopsis.
- The Wikipedia year and the record year differ by one.
- The Commons file uses the French title.
Scenes
- The cards on the table become people and start to dance.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Les Cartes vivantes)
