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Summoning the Spirits
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Wikipedia article
'Summoning the Spirits' is an 1899 French short silent film by Georges Mlis.
Plot
A magician hangs a wreath in the air and makes a grotesque face appear inside it. He then replaces it with a woman's face, and finally with a copy of his own face.
Release and survival
Mlis himself plays the magician in the film. 'Summoning the Spirits' was sold by Mlis's Star Film Company and is numbered 205 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a 'scne transformations'.
Mlis burned all the surviving original camera negatives of his films toward the end of his life, and about three-fifths of his output is presumed lost. 'Summoning the Spirits' was among the lost films until 2007, when a copy was identified and restored by the Filmoteca de Catalunya.
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