Escamotage d'une dame au théâtre Robert Houdin

Simple magic trick, but it's clever and well edited and performed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nE-pEOilhQ&list=PLusvja3Zc34_W8R5I0k5iESyw61UhV8BT

Fun times

A trick film in which the trick is rather obvious, but I don't mind. There's just something about these little films of Melies in which he's basically a one-man show that's consistently endearing, since at one minute the movie can't possibly wear out its welcome. The replacing of the woman with the skeleton and back again recalls fond memories of a similar scene in _Lord of Illusions_. Georges Melies vs. Nix -- boy, would I love to see that...