No theater could ever try to match such wonders, but for the camera they are not difficult; the little dancers were simply at a much further distance from the camera and therefore appeared in their Lilliputian size.

Rich artistic effects have been secured, and while on the stage every fairy play is clumsy and hardly able to create an illusion, in the film we really see the man transformed into a beast and the flower into a girl.

There is no limit to the trick pictures which the skill of the experts invent.

The divers jump, feet first, out of the water to the springboard.

It looks magical, and yet the camera man has simply to reverse his film and to run it from the end to the beginning of the action.