Up-to-Date Spiritualism

January. 01,1900      
Rating:
5.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return to his head and shoulders as soon as he takes them off. The chairs, his umbrella, his hat, etc., fly away in different directions and by various methods. (Star Film Catalog)

Georges Méliès as  Le comique excentrique

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