Huh? I mean, did Melies keep a staff of dancing ladies on the payroll to just send onto the stage and do a few moves whenever he needed some filler for his latest production? Melies was a real pioneer of motion pictures, I'll give him that. Here, however, he sets a highly annoying precedent: the tendency of directors to just semi-randomly throw stuff into the picture when they have neither any fresh ideas nor a clear vision -- a curse that has haunted we movie nerds since movies began