Segundo de Chomón was a wonderful filmmaker, though if you watch a lot of early French films you realize that so much of what he made was copied, or perhaps we should say 'liberally inspired", by the films of Georges Méliès. Much of what you see in "Métamorphoses" looks like the work of this other filmmaker...though it's a nice looking short film regardless.
A woman dressed in unusual garb is doing magic on camera. But instead of looking and acting like a magician, you can only guess that she's a fairy or witch or goddess or whatnot. She uses her want to make burning things turn into other things (done by stopping and starting the camera as well as reversing the footage). Then, she begins turning things into other things....and the film ends.
Nothing all that new here but enjoyable nonetheless.
A woman dressed in unusual garb is doing magic on camera. But instead of looking and acting like a magician, you can only guess that she's a fairy or witch or goddess or whatnot. She uses her want to make burning things turn into other things (done by stopping and starting the camera as well as reversing the footage). Then, she begins turning things into other things....and the film ends.
Nothing all that new here but enjoyable nonetheless.