The Wonderful Album
About The Wonderful Album
A charlatan sells a rich marquis an album whose pictures are alive. As the pages turn, the figures step out and crowd him. In the English trade description, pages are torn off and the women surround the old man. They vanish at his touch and leave their dresses. He goes for the magician, who disappears into the album. A kick, and the album vanishes too.
Cast & crew
More about The Wonderful Album
Gaston Velle directed this Pathé féerie, catalogue number 1264, about 80 meters. Henri Ménessier worked on the production. The Era (London, August 19, 1905) reviewed it as The Magic Album. A French release is dated September 4, 1905.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Pathé catalogue number 1264. The length on the record is 80 meters, or 265 feet.
- The English title in The Era is The Magic Album.
- It played in Valencia on September 20, 1905, and in Mexico City on September 25, 1905.
- The French title is L'Album merveilleux.
Scenes
- Women leave the pages and surround the marquis.
- The magician vanishes into the album, and a kick makes the book disappear.
