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THE ONE-MAN BAND - FAT AND LEAN WRESTLING MATCH - RIP'S DREAM - THE FAMOUS BOX TRICK - WHY THAT ACTOR WAS LATE

THE ONE-MAN BAND
France 1900
One of the most extraordinary and incomprehensible tricks ever performed. The same
character self-multiplies 7 times, each body rises out of the previous one, each holding
different musical instruments. They all form an orchestra. The middle man beats time
while the others play their instruments and contort their bodies in a comical way. In the
end, all of the characters return back into each other's bodies one by one.

FAT AND LEAN WRESTLING MATCH
France 1900
A parody of various carnival fights. First, a fight between two women, and then one
between two men. Next, there is a comical match between a fat man and a skinny man,
full of very funny incidents.

RIP'S DREAM
France 1905
The scene takes place in America, in a small English colony at the edge of the Hudson.
Rip Van Winkle, accused of conspiring with the enemy (France) by the village bailiff,
must flee to the mountain. There, he falls asleep and dreams that he is sentenced to
sleep for 20 years since he stole the treasure of a pirate whose ghost comes to take
revenge by making him sleep. Rip dreams that he wakes up 20 years older and that no
one recognizes him. However, it is but a dream, and Rip discovers a world where all
danger is from now on isolated.

THE FAMOUS BOX TRICK
France 1898
The magician takes out a young boy from a box. He places him on a pedestal, grabs an
axe and divides the child. Instead of just one, there are now two boys, who then begin to
fight each other. The magician separates them, holds one of them in his arms,
transforms him into a sheet of paper, which he tears up. Then taking the other boy, he
puts him into the box, breaks it down immediately as if it were completely empty, and
takes out a new child, but this time from the ground. The magician makes the child
disappear, transforming him into two curtains, and then disappears himself.

WHY THAT ACTOR WAS LATE
France 1908
An actor realizes that he is going to be late for his performance at the theatre. He causes
several catastrophes along the way, but does everything he can to arrive just before the
curtain rises.