
The Man with the Rubber Head(1901)
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.


A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

Georges Méliès
Le chevalier mystère
The Mysterious Knight is a fantasy film released in 1899 exploring themes of disembodied head, silent film. Directed by Georges Méliès, it stars Georges Méliès. A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.
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A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.

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