21 November 1908 Fantasy, Comedy 1 mins
A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.
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Jean Durand Director
Les vêtements cascadeurs Trailer
France 21 November 1908
United States 18 August 1909
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03 August 1908
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03 December 1908
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A pickpocket manages to escape the police through a series of fantastic tricks. The director in this film is unknown.
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An old merchant gets lost in the forest and arrives at a magnificent garden where he sits and picks some magnificent roses.
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This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of fireworks, flames and fountains as well as the customary fairies, magic and dancing.
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