The Vanishing Lady

(1896)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 134 votes

Genres: Mystery

Year: 1896

Runtime: 1 мин

Country: France

Director: Georges Méliès

Cast: Georges Méliès, Jehanne d'Alcy

Plot

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

An elegantly dressed man enters through a stage door onto a set with decorated back screen, a chair and small table. He brings a well-dressed women through the door, spreads a newspaper on the floor, and places the chair on it. She sits and fans herself; he covers her with a diaphanous cloth. She disappears; he tries to conjure her back with incomplete results. Can he go beyond the bare bones of a conjuring trick and succeed in the complete reconstitution of a the lady?