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Clip description
The hen that lays the golden eggs transforms into a beautiful woman who is joined by her fellow chicken women in a dance in full-stencilled colour. The dance ends as the golden hen lays another mound of golden eggs.
Curator’s notes
This scene is a classic example of the style of many of the short fantasy films made by Pathé Freres in the first decade of the twentieth century. Matching up with a moral or fairy tale, the transformation of animals, insects or flowers into beautiful, and sometimes vengeful dancing girls, is one of the most familiar features of these films.
