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The Spider and the Butterfly (1909)

Genre : Horror, Fantasy

Runtime : 2M

Director : Georges Méliès

Synopsis

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the star woman turns into a spider, dragging the butterfly into her web.

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Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
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