May Days of Melies – The Magician’s Cavern [L’antre des esprits] (1901)

In The Magician’s Cavern (aka L’antre des esprits aka The Spirits’ Lair), Méliès shows off his full bag of cinematic tricks learned thus far, including stop-cut replacement edits, superimpositions, and dissolves.

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