In this mixed live-action/animated short from Émile Cohl, a young man is having tea with a couple of young women. A suspicious elderly guardian plucks a hair from his head and takes it to a magician, who hocuses it into showing where the man has been.When we think of animated cartoons, we think of images that move. Cohl had begun making movies in the era of Georges Melies and Segundo de Chomon, whose movies were frequently magical acts on screen: transformations. Although Cohl did make his figures move, he is best remembered for his transformation animations, like FANTASMAGORIE. While both sorts of animations continued -- who can forget Felix the Cat changing his tail into any number of objects? -- by the late 1930s, motion had won the day and transformation became a less important case in the grammar of animation, most often used to indicate that something magical was going on.Here, though, it's at the heart of this movie, and it's a typical Cohl delight.