The man in the Arabian tale speaks to the magic carpet.

It carries him whithersoever he desires.

This yearning for personality in furniture begins to be crudely worked upon in the so-called trick-scenes.

The typical commercialized comedy of this sort is Moving Day.

Lyman H.Howe, among many excellent reels of a different kind, has films allied to Moving Day.
But let us examine at this point, as even more typical, an old Pathe Film from France.