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MEL 1904-A


Tit for Tat, or a Good Joke with my Head

(A Comical and Mysterious Fantasy.) 

In this view, embodying a series of tricks very delicate and difficult of execution, the juggler enters upon the scene. After a few come preambles he places upon a raised table, which is entirely open underneath, a box the four sides and the cover of which are made of glass. He mounts upon a stool opens the cover of the glass box, and, seizing his own head, he separates in from his own body and places it in the box, where he shuts it up. From his hat, lying upon a chair, he withdraws a second head, which he fits upon his body in place of the first one. The second head and the first are perfectly living counterparts, and are the real head of the operator. The artist explains by pantomime that he is going to have a little sport with the head shut up in the box. So, accordingly, he lights a cigarette, and through a hole in one of the sides he blows the smoke into the box. The second head begins to protest most energetically-to sneeze, to cough, and to make faces in a most ridiculous manner, whilst the juggler continues to blow smoke into the box more and more rapidly, at the same time laughing at the grimaces of his unfortunate twin. Finally the juggler, from fear of stifling the imprisoned head, opens the lid. The smoke disappears into the air, and the head, having been rendered lighter by the smoke that it has inhaled, rises up and takes a position directly over the head of the operator. In order to avenge himself for the trick which has just been played upon it, it opens its mouth and begins to squirt water upon the head of the juggler, after the fashion of lions in the public fountains. The juggler, enraged, makes a leap and seizes the floating head. He jabs it into his hat with kicks and punches, and then goes out, while drawing the hat down over his own head with the air of a disgusted person.
A charming illusion, most perfectly and most amusingly executed.

MEL 1905-A

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1 Méliès 540-541  
2 Georges Méliès   
3 1904 40m/128ft
4 France  

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