La magia de un día cualquiera

Another magic short of Méliès.

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they disappear mysteriously in the air. He then takes a white hand…

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.

In an outdoor setting, a magician makes pond nymphs and frog people appear out of water and thin air.

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assis…

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

A magician's son plays tricks with his father's magic wand.

An Aesop’s Fables Studio cartoon.

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girl…

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen.

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

Two men in a cave perform magic.

This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.