A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering children.
Watch the official The Indian Sorcerer 1908 trailer in HD below.
Georges Méliès as The Fakir
Georges Méliès Director
Le fakir de Singapoure Trailer
France 25 June 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
02 May 1908
In this screaming comic is shown the amount of mischief that can be accomplished by one small boy. (Moving Picture World synopsis.
27 October 1908
George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team.
08 March 1908
The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones, the mate of Flint's ship, the "Walrus," and they send Black Dog, one of the crew, to tip Billy Bones to the "black spot" at the Admiral Ben Bow Inn; but Billy Bones drives Black Dog away, and will have nothing to do with him.
23 May 1908
A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.
06 October 1908
The mishaps of a man who steps into the street wearing his brand-new white suit, and who instantly encounters every conceivable insult to his suit's integrity: a coalman bumps into him, a waiter spills food on him, a painter walks into him.
12 August 1908
In this comedy we see a fellow giving orders to the cook to put plenty of garlic in his food, and she complies with his wishes by giving everything an extra dose of the unpleasant ingredient.
25 July 1908
A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.
01 January 1908
Images from Grängesberg's mines. The ore is loaded onto trains and transported to the port of Oxelösund.
02 October 1908
Imagine ten pickaninnies turned loose and on mischief bent. Farmer catches one leaving but Nine. Nine Happy Snowballs on a Swing elate.
08 February 1908
About an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians, the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from the present day Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island - parts of an area also known as Acadia.
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