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Watch L'alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou la Cornue Infernale [tinted] (1906)

Source And Credit

This video is hosted by and streams from Internet Archive, credited to Georges Méliès. License stated there, Public Domain. Every right stays with its owner. Request removal.

About This Film

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears. The snake begins a series of transformations: he becomes a jester, a spider, and a woman. Each approaches the wizard as he sleeps. Each also works its magic on a glass vial on the wizard's table. Soon the vial has grown in size and is full of a bubbling liquid. The wizard wakes, the vial...

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