Saturday, May 20, 2023

Lost Media: A Fake Diamond Swindler (1908)


Georges Méliès in 1938


A Fake Diamond Swindler is a French silent comedy released in May 1908. The film was directed by Georges Méliès. and produced by Star Film Company.

PLOT:

In a laboratory that is full of chemicals and electrical apparatuses, a man claims to have invented a way to create diamonds. He is sought after and is swindling people of their money for his alleged process. The President of diamond mines in South Africa comes to see. He watches a diamond manufactured and receives it as a scarf pin.

The gendarmes enter and drag the impostor to court. During the exciting and ludicrous legal proceedings, he escapes. He knocks officials over and leaves through a window and is followed in hot pursuit. There are many obstacles encountered and overturned, one example being a couple on a park bench. t ends with him caught and behind bars.

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