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Very Short Film: L'Alchimiste Parafaragaramus - Paul Ferguson - 05-30-2024
"L'Alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou la Cornue infernale, released in the United States as The Mysterious Retort and in Britain as The Alchemist and the Demon, is a 1906 French silent trick film* directed by Georges Méliès.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_film
"In a laboratory, an alchemist is working with a large retort on a stove. After consulting a book, he falls asleep in a chair near the retort. As he sleeps, a giant snake comes out of the stove and transforms into a jester, who wakes the alchemist and forces him to look in a hand-mirror. When the alchemist does so, the retort grows much larger, the alchemist falls back to sleep, and a giant spider with a human face appears inside the retort."
Film viewable at Wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Retort#Versions