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Film, Video The enchanted glasses French title from AFI STAR database: Verres enchanté / Inventory title: Masson reel / Variant inventory title: Unidentified Masson / Collective title from MAVIS: Special effects reel / Verres enchanté / Masson reel / Unidentified Masson / Special effects reel

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Title

  • The enchanted glasses

Other Title

  • French title from AFI STAR database: Verres enchanté
  • Inventory title: Masson reel
  • Variant inventory title: Unidentified Masson
  • Collective title from MAVIS: Special effects reel
  • Verres enchanté
  • Masson reel
  • Unidentified Masson
  • Special effects reel

Summary

  • Devilish looking man dances with a dress in his arms. The dress stands up by itself and a woman magician appears in it. She conjures six women and then makes them disappear. She magically changes into men's clothing and lines up six boxes which begin to smoke and produce six women, whose clothing transforms from formal gowns to ballet dresses. The magician makes them disappear. She then lines up six glasses on a table, and, as she pours wine into them, a woman appears in each glass. She makes the wine go back into the container and everything on the table goes up in smoke. She transforms her clothing into a dress, then disappears, leaving the dress standing on its own. The devilish man reappears, turns the dress into torches, then disappears into smoke with the torches.

Names

  • Chomón, Segundo de, 1871-1929, direction, camera
  • Mathieu, Julienne, cast
  • Pathé frères (France)
  • Pathé Frères (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • [United States : Pathé Frères, 1907]

Headings

  • -  Magic tricks

Genre

  • Trick films
  • Silent films
  • Short films

Notes

  • -  Julienne Mathieu.
  • -  Originally released in France by Pathé frères in 1907.
  • -  Part of summary from AFI STAR database.
  • -  Pathé no. 1830.
  • -  On one film reel/videocassette with five other films. Preceded by La poule phénomène, A touching pleading, [Story of Christ], Liliputian dance. Followed by The golden beetle.
  • -  The digital file and Betacam SP were made from the viewing print (FBC 7678).
  • -  Digital files viewed.
  • -  Sources used: AFI STAR database record no. 7830; American Film Institute online catalog; Catalogue Pathé des années 1896 à 1914, 1907 à 1909, p. 37.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.

Medium

  • viewing copy 1 videocassette of 1 (Betacam SP) (ca. 4 min.) : si., b&w ; 1/2 in.
  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 130 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • non-viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 300 ft.) : si., b&w (tinted) ; 35 mm.
  • interneg 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 300 ft.) : si., col. ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • VRA 1876 (viewing copy)
  • FBC 7678 (viewing print)
  • CPA 1577 (non-viewing print)
  • CPA 0140 (interneg)

Source Collection

  • Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
  • AFI/Masson (Daniel J.) Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2006640664

Online Format

  • video

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Rights & Access

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, France in America.

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Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Mathieu, Julienne, Cast, Pathé Frères, and U.S Pathé Frères. The Enchanted Glasses. directeds by Chomón, Segundo De, Ection, Camera [United States: Pathé Frères, 1907] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2006640664/.

APA citation style:

Mathieu, J., Pathé Frères & Pathé Frères, U. S. (1907) The Enchanted Glasses. Chomón, S. D., dir [United States: Pathé Frères] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2006640664/.

MLA citation style:

Mathieu, Julienne, Cast, Pathé Frères, and U.S Pathé Frères. The Enchanted Glasses. dir by Chomón, Segundo De, Ection, Camera [United States: Pathé Frères, 1907] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2006640664/>.