"Le Cerceau Magique", silent short made by French animator Emile Cohl in 1908.
A magician gives a girl a new hoop after her own has broken. The "magic hoop" changes in size and about halfway in the sequence, it hangs itself on the wall and the events happen to occur within its limits. Cohl toys with stop-motion animation, with some of the special effects involving pieces of paper being folded into origami shapes. Due to the extreme deterioration of the print, a good part of it is hard to make out, but the Spanish "pajarita" appears in all its splendor and becomes multiplied in a cascade of many more. The Museo del Origami in Colonia (Uruguay) thanks José Tomás Buitrago (Colombia) for having found and shared this interesting material. en.museodelorigami.org/videoteca-septiembre-2020 <http://en.museodelorigami.org/videoteca-septiembre-2020> Laura Rozenberg
