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A Mischievous Sketch (1907) [N/A]

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Release Date:
January 7, 1907

Original Title:
Le Carton fantastique

Genres:
Comedy | Fantasy

Production Companies:
Star Film Company

Production Countries:
France

Ratings / Certifications:
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An easel appears, and soon after a canvas "walks" up from the floor of its own accord and takes its place on the easel. Now an artist's portfolio is seen, it opens up and different parts of a sketch which are enclosed therein, mysteriously fly from it upon the canvas until finally all the parts resemble the image of a man. When completed, the picture becomes animated and comes down upon the ground and engages in some merry antics with its own skeleton which shortly after is changed into a lady. After frolicking around for an interval, the man is changed to a sketch on the canvas; then it begins to dismember itself, one portion at the time. After all the parts of the sketch are in the portfolio, it folds itself up; then the animated person appears from some mysterious source and carries off the portfolio in which his own image is enclosed.

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Director:
Georges Méliès

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