Société des Etablissements Gaumont (FR)

A short film that concluded the film programs. On a stage with a black background, a fairy whose long dress is colored pink, greets the spectators. She holds a magic wand at the end of which is attached a white ribbon. With a blow of this baguette, it makes appear behind it in height a large B composed of flowers and colored in pink. Then a blue O, a yellow N, a green S, a blue O, a pink I and the green final R. She then picks up a pink flower at her feet and throws it above the I: the flower remains fixed there and forms the point on the i. She finally salutes and disappears. The word BONSOIR remains in the image.

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into a hoop with strange properties for a young girl. Costume changes and city promenades give way towards greater abstraction as the film becomes absorbed by what goes on inside the ring.

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

"A mythological scene with the most beautiful effect" (Nouveautés Cinématographiques, 1908)

Overview of ideas about the police on the occasion of an attack on the bourgeois by Apaches gangsters.