In this film by Segundo de Chomón, there isn't any real plot...just some seemingly magical stuff going on for the audience. Everyone in the film is dressed in mid-18th century attire. A woman stands net to a folding screen and then various images appear on each separate screen. To do this, it meant doing many takes and perfectly trimming and inserting them onto each screen....a very time-consuming and difficult task for 1912.
As far as the style of the film goes, it's very typical of Chomón's work...which was inspired by the film so of French filmmaker Georges Méliès. Nothing brilliant here but a cleanly made and technically fascinating film for its time. And, unlike other review, the copy I found on YouTube was not one minute but three minutes long and seemed to be the entire film (such short films were very common in the early days of movies)....and it was also hand painted to make it a color film.
As far as the style of the film goes, it's very typical of Chomón's work...which was inspired by the film so of French filmmaker Georges Méliès. Nothing brilliant here but a cleanly made and technically fascinating film for its time. And, unlike other review, the copy I found on YouTube was not one minute but three minutes long and seemed to be the entire film (such short films were very common in the early days of movies)....and it was also hand painted to make it a color film.