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Watch Le Papillon Fantastique (1909)

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

On exiting a strange cone a young girl deploys her butterfly wings. Mr Méliès is preparing for the show. In a puff of smoke, a star in the centre of which a second young girl appears, occupies the centre of the stage. As quick as lightning and the young girl from the star is transformed into a threatening spider-woman. But Méliès is there! With a magical gunshot the sprawling creature disappears...

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