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  • Miser's Dream (1899)
  • Short | 1 min | Short, Fantasy
Miser's Dream (1899)
Short | 1 min | Short, Fantasy
Showing interior of a laboratory of a metallurgist conducting experiments and he is endeavoring to produce gold from baser metals. In a huge fireplace is seen a cauldron, into which he puts various chemicals. Great clouds of smoke ascend ...See moreShowing interior of a laboratory of a metallurgist conducting experiments and he is endeavoring to produce gold from baser metals. In a huge fireplace is seen a cauldron, into which he puts various chemicals. Great clouds of smoke ascend up the chimney, after this disappears is seen a counterpart of a gold coin gradually evolving into shape. This coin dissolves into a beautiful woman offering to the alchemist a huge bag of gold. As he reaches forth to grasp the same, the apparition vanishes completely. Written by Selig Catalog See less
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Georges Méliès
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Updated Dec 31, 1899
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Jan 1903 (United States)

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