The Shadow-Girl (1902)

Original title

La Clownesse fantôme

Directed by

Georges Méliès

Genre

fantasy film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

1 min

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A magician performs a series of illusions with a female assistant who appears and disappears. The film shows a variety of tricks including transforming one person into another and making objects vanish.

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What happens

La Clownesse fantôme, released in the United States as The Shadow-Girl and in the United Kingdom as Twentieth Century Conjuring, is a 1902 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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