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The devil materialises and sets a fire, but struggles to keep it lit. However, a woman in a long, flowing white dress also appears and begins to perform a serpentine dance, fanning the flames in the process, before ascending to the sky in a pillar of smoke, in Méliès’s lovingly crafted, hand-tinted fantasy.
Arabian Gun Twirler | Thomas A. Edison | ★★★
The Biter Bit | James Bamforth | ★★★
Cinderella | Georges Méliès | ★★★
Gordon Highlanders | William Walker | ★★★
Jeanne d'Arc | Georges Méliès | ★★★
A Kiss in the Tunnel | G.A. Smith | ★★★
The Kiss in the Tunnel | James Bamforth | ★★★
Panorama of Calcutta | John Benett-Stanford | ★★★
The Sign of the Cross | Georges Méliès | ★★★
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies | Walter R. Booth | ★★★
An Up-to-Date Conjuror | Georges Méliès | ★★★
Bicycle Trick Riding, No. 2 | Thomas A. Edison | ★★
King John | W.K-L. Dickson & Walter Pfeffer Dando | ★★
The Dreyfus Affair | Georges Méliès | ★★
Women's Rights | James Bamforth | ★★
