27 February 1909 Fantasy, Horror 2 mins
Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the star woman turns into a spider, dragging the butterfly into her web.
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France 27 February 1909
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