Devil's Pot

Original title: La marmite diabolique

1904
1m

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A cook and his assistant are seen preparing dinner. While cook leaves the room he cautions his assistant to watch the pot so that it will not boil over. The assistant proceeds to pick the fe... Read allA cook and his assistant are seen preparing dinner. While cook leaves the room he cautions his assistant to watch the pot so that it will not boil over. The assistant proceeds to pick the feathers from a chicken. Meanwhile the pot boils over and Satan appears, surrounded by a clo... Read allA cook and his assistant are seen preparing dinner. While cook leaves the room he cautions his assistant to watch the pot so that it will not boil over. The assistant proceeds to pick the feathers from a chicken. Meanwhile the pot boils over and Satan appears, surrounded by a cloud of steam. He alights and creeps over to within a few feet of the bench on which the ass... Read all

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- Gaston Velle

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5.1/10

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- Gaston Velle

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4/10

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A cook's assistant lets the stock pot -- that's what 'marmite' is in French, you silly -- boil over, allowing the devil to appear. So the assistant winds up in the pot.....

As it exists, this Melies-style fantasy of devils, cooks, stop-motion camera tricks and black humor doesn't make much sense, and bears little relation to the elaborate description that appears in the IMDb summary. At least, that's the version i saw, in which the cook appears to place the tiny assistant in the pot.

It's still amusing if you enjoy this sort of ur-grammar cinema, from before the time when the modern editing techniques started to take over the world.