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Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer

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'Le Thaumaturge chinois', sold in the United States as 'Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer' and in Britain as 'The Chinese Juggler', is a 1904 French short silent film by Georges Mlis. It was sold by Mlis's Star Film Company and is numbered 578580 in its catalogues.

Mlis plays the conjurer of the title; his tricks are worked using substitution splices and dissolves. The motion in the film is noticeably fast, even at silent-film speeds such as 16 frames per second; Mlis may have had his camera operator deliberately undercrank the camera to create a stylized effect.

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