Star Film Company

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal player sits down, a drummer appears in the second chair, and then likewise moves on to the third chair. In this way, an entire band is soon formed, and is then ready to perform.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment of six pretty maidens. Then, to the astonishment of all, he runs up the wall, dances and turns handsprings in mid-air, introducing many tricks that are entirely new in animated photography. The most puzzling of all the mystical series. (Star Film Catalog)

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer then has a large box brought in. It is opened, revealing a very large folding fan. When the fan is spread out, the designs on it begin to change and move. And this is far from the last of the surprises that the conjurer has in store.

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the Bordereau. He notices the nervousness of Dreyfus, and accuses him of being the author of the Bordereau. Paty de Clam offers Dreyfus a revolver, with advice to commit suicide. The revolver is scornfully rejected, Dreyfus stating that he had no need for such cowardly methods, proclaiming his innocence. His arrest is immediately ordered by M. Cochefort.

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.