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Willie's Magic Wand (1907)
 

Synopsis

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Father demonstrates the power of his wand to Little Willie by pulling a doll from a seemingly empty tube and changing it into a golliwog.

While his father reads the newspaper, Willie takes the wand and uses it to bring to life a large fish in the kitchen which battles with the cook. Moving on, Willie uses the wand to place a beard on the face of his sleeping grandmother. He changes his grandfather's drink into a powder which flies in his face.

Going outside the house, Willie stops the snow which is falling and transforms the winter scene in the garden to summer.

Returning indoors he makes the cat disappear in a cloud of smoke and brings the shoe cleaning brushes to life so that they black the face of the sleeping boot boy. At tea he uses the wand to paralyse his mother so that he can help himself to a large piece of cake while she looks on helplessly.