Les glaces merveilleuses

⭐ Featured Review

"Technically, this series of disappearances, appearances and transformation which Segundo de Chomon directed, is as good as anything that Melies did. The earlier ones, where people come out of the mirror separately, dance with each other and then go back in as as brilliantly timed tricks of masking as could be wished for. I could not detect the seams. Also, quite clearly, de Chomon could outspend Melies, with more chorines, more costume changes and color stenciling for the prints that Melies could not begin to match. Yet these pieces, intended to take away Melies market, as good as they are, ..."