Unusual Cooking
About Unusual Cooking
A chef comes into a kitchen and throws rags on the floor. He casts a spell. The rags become people and dance a saraband. They vanish. Knives, forks, pans, kettles, and spoons take their place.
Cast & crew
More about Unusual Cooking
Segundo de Chomón directed this Pathé trick short. The French title is Cuisine abracadabrante. Moving Picture World printed the rag-and-saraband synopsis. Listings give three minutes and a date of September 19, 1908.
Themes
Technique
Stop-substitution turns floor rags into dancers and then into a set of kitchen tools.
Notes
- A viewer note on IMDb adds a cook who multiplies and a crowd pouring out of a giant samovar.
- The Moving Picture World text is the rag spell, the dance, and the utensils that replace the dancers.
- Chomón was making these substitutions for Pathé while Méliès was still selling trick films.
Scenes
- The rags become dancers and circle the kitchen.
- Pans, kettles, and spoons replace them.
