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The Invisible Fluid

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1908 · 12 min Science Fiction Comedy
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" No indeed! He would have procured some of the mysterious fluid compounded by an erudite scientist by which things animate and inanimate were rendered non est, for ten minutes at least, by simply spraying them with it. In an atomizer, he sends a quantity, accompanied by a letter, to his brother. In the hope of his putting it on the market. The brother regards it as a joke, and, while toying with the atomizer, accidentally sprays himself. Presto! he is gone, to the amazement of the messenger boy who has carried the package thither. The boy reads the letter, and at once sees the amount of fun he can get out of it, so he nips it.

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Year 1908
Country United States of America
Genre Science Fiction, Comedy
Director Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
Runtime 12 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (3 votes)

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The film constructs its comedic premise around a fantastical invention, relying on simple visual tricks and expressive pantomime to sell the illusion of invisibility. It explores the immediate, chaotic consequences of such a power falling into unprepared hands.

What lingers after viewing is a charming appreciation for early cinema's playful ingenuity in making the impossible seem casually possible with minimal means. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

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