Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy(1909)

剧情简介

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from the box, which contains a fairy smoking a cigarette. Next, he leaves briefly while his smoking paraphenalia clears itself from the table and the flower reassembles itself into a cigar. He lights the cigar, then breaks a bottle containing the fairy, who interacts with him in various ways reeling from his cigar smoke, building a bonfire that he extinguishes, etc. 　　The filmmakers utilized every camera trick available at the time to achieve their desired effects, and may well have concocted new ones. Double-exposure, reverse image, and stop-motion photography were all employed, as well as two old-time stage tricks: enlarged props and images reflected in mirrors. I strongly suspect that they also utilized something more inspiring than plain tobacco ...