The Spider and the Butterfly
Le Papillon Fantastique
1909 · 0h 2m · Fantasy, Horror · France
Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the star woman turns into a spider, dragging the butterfly into her web.
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Georges Méliès6.0Smart score
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