Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy
导演: J. Stuart Blackton
类型: 喜剧/短片/奇幻
制片国家/地区: 美国
语言: 英语
上映日期: 1909
片长: 5 分钟
IMDb链接: tt0001009
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 ...